On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:28:44PM +1200, Ian Collins wrote: > >If you're new to solaris etc, I might not recommend the Dell because > >installation isn't straightforward. Hardware support exists, but it's less > >"enterprise" than what you might expect. The sun hardware is the > >recommended way to go, but it's also more expensive. > > > > Not in my neck of the woods, Sun have always been most competitive.
You find Sun to be a better deal than Supermicro? Especially, when you're sticking a very large number of disks into it, and can't source the diskless caddies elsewhere? -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
