Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-23 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, matthew patton wrote: Of the "we force you to buy our overinflated drives" camp, Dell is the cheapest but also the most inefficient by far on power/space. The HP puts 70 disks in 4U. NexSan 42, and Sun 48. The clear winner here is HP. What is the performance like with H

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-23 Thread matthew patton
For those who are interested in some of the options out there. DIY DAS: Supermicro 36 bay case - $1800 Promise 16 bay JBOD VTrak J610sD - $3700 Promise VTE610sD - $7500 (SAS attached head unit with onboard raid controllers, takes JBOD expansion) The following apply to 1TB SATA drive configuratio

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:16:44PM -0700, Eric D. Mudama wrote: > >no one is selling disk brackets without disks. not Dell, not EMC, not > >NetApp, not IBM, not HP, not Fujitsu, ... > > http://discountechnology.com/Products/SCSI-Hard-Drive-Caddies-Trays I don't see why we have to hunt down rand

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-10 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Thomas Burgess wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:33:12PM -0500, Thomas Burgess wrote: >> > This is a far cry from an apples to apples comparison though. >> >> As much as I'm no fan of Apple, it's a pity they dropped ZFS because >> that would have brought consid

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-10 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
"Eric D. Mudama" writes: > On Tue, Feb 9 at 2:36, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: >> no one is selling disk brackets without disks. not Dell, not EMC, >> not NetApp, not IBM, not HP, not Fujitsu, ... > > http://discountechnology.com/Products/SCSI-Hard-Drive-Caddies-Trays very nice, thanks. unfort

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-09 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Tue, Feb 9 at 2:36, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: Daniel Carosone writes: In that context, I haven't seen an answer, just a conclusion: - All else is not equal, so I give my money to some other hardware manufacturer, and get frustrated that Sun "won't let me" buy the parts I could u

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-09 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: > > I assume you are responding to my comment and not Toby's. Did you try > to drill down past the front page? To look at the specs for ANY server? > I just thought it was much more difficult to look at and compare specs > than it was on Sun's

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-09 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Frank Cusack wrote: I assume you are responding to my comment and not Toby's. Did you try to drill down past the front page? To look at the specs for ANY server? I just thought it was much more difficult to look at and compare specs than it was on Sun's site. Turns out you

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-09 Thread Frank Cusack
On 2/9/10 5:19 PM -0600 Tim Cook wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Toby Thain wrote: On 9-Feb-10, at 2:02 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: On 2/9/10 12:03 PM +1100 Daniel Carosone wrote:> Snorcle wants to sell hardware. LOL ... snorcle But apparently they don't. Have you seen the new we

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-09 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Toby Thain wrote: > > On 9-Feb-10, at 2:02 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: > > On 2/9/10 12:03 PM +1100 Daniel Carosone wrote:> >> >>> Snorcle wants to sell hardware. >>> >> >> LOL ... snorcle >> >> But apparently they don't. Have you seen the new website? Seems like a

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-09 Thread David Magda
On Feb 8, 2010, at 20:03, Daniel Carosone wrote: Snorcle wants to sell hardware. Larry Ellison wants Oracle to be a "systems" company, a la T. J. Watson Jr.'s IBM and Cisco: "We are not going into the hardware business. We have no interest in the hardware business. We have a deep interes

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-09 Thread Toby Thain
On 9-Feb-10, at 2:02 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: On 2/9/10 12:03 PM +1100 Daniel Carosone wrote:> Snorcle wants to sell hardware. LOL ... snorcle But apparently they don't. Have you seen the new website? Seems like a blatant attempt to kill the hardware business to me. That's very sad.

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-09 Thread Frank Cusack
On 2/9/10 12:03 PM +1100 Daniel Carosone wrote:> Snorcle wants to sell hardware. LOL ... snorcle But apparently they don't. Have you seen the new website? Seems like a blatant attempt to kill the hardware business to me. ___ zfs-discuss mailing li

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-08 Thread Thomas Burgess
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:33:12PM -0500, Thomas Burgess wrote: > > This is a far cry from an apples to apples comparison though. > > As much as I'm no fan of Apple, it's a pity they dropped ZFS because > that would have brought considerable attention to the opportunity of > marketing and offerin

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel Carosone
> > Although I am in full support of what sun is doing, to play devils > > advocate: supermicro is. They're not the only ones, although the most-often discussed here. Dell will generally sell hardware and warranty and service add-ons in any combination, to anyone willing and capable of figurin

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-08 Thread Erik Trimble
Tim Cook wrote: On Monday, February 8, 2010, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: Daniel Carosone writes: In that context, I haven't seen an answer, just a conclusion: - All else is not equal, so I give my money to some other hardware manufacturer, and get frustrated that Sun "won't let

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-08 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Tim Cook wrote: > On Monday, February 8, 2010, Kjetil Torgrim Homme > wrote: > > Daniel Carosone writes: > > > >> In that context, I haven't seen an answer, just a conclusion: > >> > >> - All else is not equal, so I give my money to some other hardware > >>m

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-08 Thread Tim Cook
On Monday, February 8, 2010, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > Daniel Carosone writes: > >> In that context, I haven't seen an answer, just a conclusion: >> >>  - All else is not equal, so I give my money to some other hardware >>    manufacturer, and get frustrated that Sun "won't let me" buy the >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-08 Thread Thomas Burgess
Just like i said way earlier, The entire idea is like asking to buy a Ferrari without the aluminum wheels they sell because you think they are charging too much for them, after all, aluminum is cheap. It's just not done that way. There are OTHER OPTIONS for people who can't afford it. You reall

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-08 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Daniel Carosone writes: > In that context, I haven't seen an answer, just a conclusion: > > - All else is not equal, so I give my money to some other hardware >manufacturer, and get frustrated that Sun "won't let me" buy the >parts I could use effectively and comfortably. no one is s

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel Carosone
This is a long thread, with lots of interesting and valid observations about the organisation of the industry, the segmentation of the market, getting what you pay for vs paying for what you want, etc. I don't really find within, however, an answer to the original question, at least the way I re

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-07 Thread Frank Cusack
On 2/8/10 12:49 AM -0200 Giovanni Tirloni wrote: I think the industry is in a sad state when you buy enterprise-level drives and they don't work as expected (see that thread about TLER settings on WD enterprise drives) that you have to spend extra on drives that got reviewed by a third-party (Sun

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-07 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Marc Nicholas wrote: > I believe magical unicorn controllers and drives are both bug-free and > 100% spec compliant. The leprichorns sell them if you're trying to > find them ;) > Well, "perfect" and "bug free" sure don't exist in our industry. The problem is tha

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-07 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Tim Cook wrote: > > It's called spreading the costs around. Would you really rather pay 10x > the price on everything else besides the drives? This is essentially Sun's > way of tiered pricing. Rather than charge you a software fee based on how > much storage yo

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-07 Thread Ragnar Sundblad
On 2 feb 2010, at 16.26, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > I'm pretty doubtful that the hardware differs from what I can buy from > Newegg or whatever *IF* I buy the same enterprise-grade drive model (WD > S25 or RE-4, say, rather than Caviar Blue) (I don't know what WD drives, > if any, are currently q

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-07 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Tim Cook writes: > Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: >>I don't know what the J4500 drive sled contains, but for the J4200 >>and J4400 they need to include quite a bit of circuitry to handle >>SAS protocol all the way, for multipathing and to be able to >>accept a mix of SAS and SATA dri

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-07 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > matthew patton writes: > > > true. but I buy a Ferrari for the engine and bodywork and chassis > > engineering. It is totally criminal what Sun/EMC/Dell/Netapp do > > charging customers 10x the open-market rate for standard drives. A >

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-06 Thread Frank Cusack
On 2/6/10 4:51 PM +0100 Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: the pricing does look strange, and I think it would be better to raise the price of the enclosure (which is silly cheap when empty IMHO) and reduce the drive prices somewhat. but that's just psychology, and doesn't really matter for total cost.

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-06 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
matthew patton writes: > true. but I buy a Ferrari for the engine and bodywork and chassis > engineering. It is totally criminal what Sun/EMC/Dell/Netapp do > charging customers 10x the open-market rate for standard drives. A > RE3/4 or NS drive is the same damn thing no matter if I buy it from >

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 03:02:21PM -0800, Brandon High wrote: > Another solution, for a true DIY x4500: BackBlaze has schematics for > the 45 drive chassis that they designed available on their website. > http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-03 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Brandon High wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:13 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Which is to say that 45 drives is really quite a lot for a HOME NAS. Particularly when you then think about backing up that data. The origin of this thread was how to buy a J4500 (48 drive chassis). One thin

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-03 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:13 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > Which is to say that 45 drives is really quite a lot for a HOME NAS. > Particularly when you then think about backing up that data. The origin of this thread was how to buy a J4500 (48 drive chassis). One thing that I enjoy about this li

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-03 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, February 3, 2010 17:02, Brandon High wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:58 PM, matthew patton wrote: >> what with the home NAS conversations, what's the trick to buy a J4500 >> without any drives? SUN like every other "enterprise" storage vendor >> thinks it's ok to rape their customers an

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-03 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:58 PM, matthew patton wrote: > what with the home NAS conversations, what's the trick to buy a J4500 without > any drives? SUN like every other "enterprise" storage vendor thinks it's ok > to rape their customers and I for one, am not interested in paying 10x for a > si

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-03 Thread Toby Thain
On 2-Feb-10, at 10:11 PM, Marc Nicholas wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Toby Thain wrote: On 2-Feb-10, at 1:54 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote: 100% uptime for 20 years? So what makes OpenVMS so much more stable than Unix? What is the difference? The short answer is that uptimes lik

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
"David Dyer-Bennet" wrote: > When I was first in the industry, in 1969, it was fairly normal to only be > able to connect DEC disks to a PDP-11; but even then there were > third-party manufacturers making products and customers buying them. Now, > forty years down the road, computers are constr

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-03 Thread Thomas Burgess
> > This seems to miss the point. I presented an argument for why I think the > qualified drives are a huge profit-center, not just making a reasonable > profit on the work of qualification. > > In general, I'd much rather pay reasonable costs for each piece, rather > than weird costs artificially

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Nicholas
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Toby Thain wrote: > > On 2-Feb-10, at 1:54 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote: > > 100% uptime for 20 years? >> >> So what makes OpenVMS so much more stable than Unix? What is the >> difference? >> > > > The short answer is that uptimes like that are VMS *cluster* uptimes. >

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Toby Thain
On 2-Feb-10, at 1:54 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote: 100% uptime for 20 years? So what makes OpenVMS so much more stable than Unix? What is the difference? The short answer is that uptimes like that are VMS *cluster* uptimes. Individual hosts don't necessarily have that uptime, but the cluster

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Miles Nordin wrote: "fc" == Frank Cusack writes: fc> by FCoE are you talking about iSCSI? FCoE is an L2 design where ethernet ``pause'' frames can be sent specific to one of the seven CoS levels instead of applying to the entire port, which makes PAUSE abuseable for ot

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Miles Nordin
> "fc" == Frank Cusack writes: fc> by FCoE are you talking about iSCSI? FCoE is an L2 design where ethernet ``pause'' frames can be sent specific to one of the seven CoS levels instead of applying to the entire port, which makes PAUSE abuseable for other purposes than their former one.

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Nicholas
I believe magical unicorn controllers and drives are both bug-free and 100% spec compliant. The leprichorns sell them if you're trying to find them ;) -marc On 2/2/10, David Magda wrote: > On Feb 2, 2010, at 15:21, Tim Cook wrote: > >> How exactly do you suggest the drive manufacturers make thei

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 2, 2010, at 2:56 PM, David Magda wrote: > > On Feb 2, 2010, at 15:17, Tim Cook wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote: >> >>> 100% uptime for 20 years? >>> >>> So what makes OpenVMS so much more stable than Unix? What is the >>> difference? >>> >> >> They had/h

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread David Magda
On Feb 2, 2010, at 15:21, Tim Cook wrote: How exactly do you suggest the drive manufacturers make their drives "just work" with every SAS/SATA controller on the market, and all of the quirks they have? You're essentially saying you want the drive manufacturers to do what the storage vendor

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread David Magda
On Feb 2, 2010, at 15:17, Tim Cook wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote: 100% uptime for 20 years? So what makes OpenVMS so much more stable than Unix? What is the difference? They had/have clustering software that was/is bulletproof. I don't think anyone in the U

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 2, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: > On February 2, 2010 4:31:47 PM -0500 Miles Nordin wrote: >> and FCoE is just dumb if you have IB, honestly. > > by FCoE are you talking about iSCSI? FCoE is to iSCSI as Netware (IPX/SPX) is to NFS :-) -- richard __

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Frank Cusack wrote: On February 2, 2010 4:31:47 PM -0500 Miles Nordin wrote: and FCoE is just dumb if you have IB, honestly. by FCoE are you talking about iSCSI? No. They are different. FCoE uses "raw" ethernet packets and ethernet switches can/should be specially d

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 2, 2010 4:31:47 PM -0500 Miles Nordin wrote: and FCoE is just dumb if you have IB, honestly. by FCoE are you talking about iSCSI? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-d

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 2, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: > 100% uptime for 20 years? > > So what makes OpenVMS so much more stable than Unix? What is the difference? Software reliability studies show that the more reliable software is old software that hasn't changed :-) On Feb 2, 2010, at 12:42 PM, D

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Miles Nordin
> "bh" == Brandon High writes: > "ok" == Orvar Korvar writes: > "mp" == matthew patton writes: bh> This one holds "only" 24 drives: bh> http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/846/SC846TQ-R900.cfm bh> ($950) This one holds only 20 drives. includes fan, not power

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 2, 2010 2:17:30 PM -0600 Tim Cook wrote: http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/vms_vs_unix.html interesting page, if somewhat dated. e.g. maybe it wasn't true at the time but don't we now know from the SCO lawsuit that SCO does indeed own "UNIX"? as long as we're OT. :) _

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Nicholas
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Peter Jeremy < peter.jer...@alcatel-lucent.com> wrote: > > OTOH, if I'm paying 10x the street drive price upfront, plus roughly > the street price annually in "support", I can save a fair amount of > money by just buying a pile of spare drives - when one fails, just

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Feb-03 00:12:43 +0800, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> >> Now, I'm sure not ALL drives offered at Newegg could qualify; but the >> question is, how much do I give up by buying an enterprise-grade drive >> from a major manufacturer, compared to the S

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, February 2, 2010 14:21, Tim Cook wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:14 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >> >> On Tue, February 2, 2010 11:26, Richard Elling wrote: >> > On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:49 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> >> On Tue, February 2, 2010 10:21, Marc Nicholas wrote: >> >>> I ag

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:14 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > On Tue, February 2, 2010 11:26, Richard Elling wrote: > > On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:49 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >> On Tue, February 2, 2010 10:21, Marc Nicholas wrote: > >>> I agree wholeheartedlyyou're paying to make the problem "

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Orvar Korvar < knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 100% uptime for 20 years? > > So what makes OpenVMS so much more stable than Unix? What is the > difference? > > > They had/have clustering software that was/is bulletproof. I don't think anyone in the Unix c

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, February 2, 2010 11:26, Richard Elling wrote: > On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:49 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> On Tue, February 2, 2010 10:21, Marc Nicholas wrote: >>> I agree wholeheartedlyyou're paying to make the problem "go away" >>> in >>> an >>> expedient manner. That said, I see how mu

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Orvar Korvar
1) SAS HBA seems to be an I/O card which has SAS cable connection. It sits in the OSol server. It is basically just a simple I/O card, right? I hope these cards are cheap? 2) So I can buy a disk chassi with 24 disks, connect all disks to one SAS cable and connect that SAS cable to my OSol serv

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Ed Fang
Also, both of those chassis come in SAS expander version and JBOD. the SAS expander version is the E1 version of the case. With the SAS Expander, and a motherboard using the LSI2008 or LSI1068 chipset, you can attach one cable from the SAS port (SFF8087) to the SAS expander and have all the dr

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Orvar Korvar
100% uptime for 20 years? So what makes OpenVMS so much more stable than Unix? What is the difference? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 2, 2010 12:08:13 PM -0600 Tim Cook wrote: Not exactly unix, but there's still VMS clusters running around out there with 100% uptime for over 20 years. I wouldn't mind seeing it opened up. Agreed, I'd love to see that opened up. Might even give it new life. __

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: > I see 24 drives in an external chassi. I presume that chassis does only hold > drives, it does not hold a motherboard. > > How do you connect all drives to your OpenSolaris server? Do you place them > next to each other, and then you have thr

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: > On February 2, 2010 11:58:17 AM -0600 Tim Cook wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Frank Cusack >> wrote: >> >> On February 2, 2010 8:57:32 AM -0800 Orvar Korvar < >>> knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>> I love that Sun

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 2, 2010 11:58:17 AM -0600 Tim Cook wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Frank Cusack wrote: On February 2, 2010 8:57:32 AM -0800 Orvar Korvar < knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com> wrote: I love that Sun shares their products for free. Which other big Unix vendor does that? Who'

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread David Champion
* On 02 Feb 2010, Orvar Korvar wrote: > Ok, I see that the chassi contains a mother board. So never mind that > question. > > Another q: Is it possible to have large chassi with lots of drives, > and the opensolaris in another chassi, how do you connect them both? The J4500 and most other storage

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Frank Cusack wrote: > On February 2, 2010 8:57:32 AM -0800 Orvar Korvar < > knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> I love that Sun shares their products for free. Which other big Unix >> vendor does that? >> > > Who's left? > > Pretty sure HP and IBM are still

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 2, 2010 8:57:32 AM -0800 Orvar Korvar wrote: I love that Sun shares their products for free. Which other big Unix vendor does that? Who's left? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/l

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:49 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > On Tue, February 2, 2010 10:21, Marc Nicholas wrote: >> I agree wholeheartedlyyou're paying to make the problem "go away" in >> an >> expedient manner. That said, I see how much we spend on NetApp storage at >> work and it makes me shudder

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Orvar Korvar
This reminds me of this attorney that charged very much for a contract template he copied and gave to a client. To that, he responded: -You dont pay for me finding this template and copying to you, which took me 5 minutes. You pay me because I sat 5 years in the university, and have 15 years of

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, February 2, 2010 10:21, Marc Nicholas wrote: > I agree wholeheartedlyyou're paying to make the problem "go away" in > an > expedient manner. That said, I see how much we spend on NetApp storage at > work and it makes me shudder ;) Yes, exactly. Pricing must be about right, people win

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Marc Nicholas wrote: > I think someone was wondering if the large storage vendors have their own > microcode on drives? I can tell you that NetApp do...and that's one way they > "lock you in" (if the drive doesn't report NetApp firmware, the filer will > "reject" the drive) and also how they do t

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Nicholas
I agree wholeheartedlyyou're paying to make the problem "go away" in an expedient manner. That said, I see how much we spend on NetApp storage at work and it makes me shudder ;) I think someone was wondering if the large storage vendors have their own microcode on drives? I can tell you that N

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Now, I'm sure not ALL drives offered at Newegg could qualify; but the question is, how much do I give up by buying an enterprise-grade drive from a major manufacturer, compared to the Sun-certified drive? If you have a Sun service contract, you give

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, February 2, 2010 09:58, Tim Cook wrote: > It's called spreading the costs around. Would you really rather pay 10x > the price on everything else besides the drives? This seems to miss the point. I presented an argument for why I think the qualified drives are a huge profit-center, not

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:45 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > On Tue, February 2, 2010 01:27, Tim Cook wrote: > > > Except you think the original engineering is just a couple grand, and > > that's > > where you're wrong. I hate the prices just as much as the next guy, but > > they do in fact need

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, February 2, 2010 01:27, Tim Cook wrote: > Except you think the original engineering is just a couple grand, and > that's > where you're wrong. I hate the prices just as much as the next guy, but > they do in fact need to feed their families. In fact, they need to do a > hell of a lot mo

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, February 2, 2010 01:26, James C. McPherson wrote: > The engineering ratings are different to what you can buy from > your local corner PC store, and the firmware is different. The > qualification is done with the assumption that the disks will be > spinning every single second for a numbe

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Rob Logan
> true. but I buy a Ferrari for the engine and bodywork and chassis > engineering. It is totally criminal what Sun/EMC/Dell/Netapp do charging its interesting to read this with another thread containing: > timeout issue is definitely the WD10EARS disks. > replaced 24 of them with ST32000542AS (f

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread David Magda
On Tue, February 2, 2010 02:24, matthew patton wrote: > true. but I buy a Ferrari for the engine and bodywork and chassis > engineering. It is totally criminal what Sun/EMC/Dell/Netapp do charging > customers 10x the open-market rate for standard drives. A RE3/4 or NS > drive is the same damn thin

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Orvar Korvar
Ok, I see that the chassi contains a mother board. So never mind that question. Another q: Is it possible to have large chassi with lots of drives, and the opensolaris in another chassi, how do you connect them both? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Orvar Korvar
A dumb question: I see 24 drives in an external chassi. I presume that chassis does only hold drives, it does not hold a motherboard. How do you connect all drives to your OpenSolaris server? Do you place them next to each other, and then you have three 8 SATA ports in your OpenSolaris server

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-02 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:58 PM, matthew patton wrote: > what with the home NAS conversations, what's the trick to buy a J4500 without > any drives? SUN like every other "enterprise" storage vendor thinks it's ok > to rape their customers and I for one, am not interested in paying 10x for a > si

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-01 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:17 AM, matthew patton wrote: > > > charge a premium for their products but they ARE a > > enterprise vendor. You > > wouldn't say something like "hey, where can i buy a Ferrari > > without any > > wheels...i'm not paying x amount for a silly aluminum > > wheel" > > true.

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-01 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:17 AM, matthew patton wrote: > > > charge a premium for their products but they ARE a > > enterprise vendor. You > > wouldn't say something like "hey, where can i buy a Ferrari > > without any > > wheels...i'm not paying x amount for a silly aluminum > > wheel" > > true.

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-01 Thread James C. McPherson
On 2/02/10 05:17 PM, matthew patton wrote: charge a premium for their products but they ARE a enterprise vendor. You wouldn't say something like "hey, where can i buy a Ferrari without any wheels...i'm not paying x amount for a silly aluminum wheel" true. but I buy a Ferrari for the engine

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-01 Thread matthew patton
> charge a premium for their products but they ARE a > enterprise vendor. You > wouldn't say something like "hey, where can i buy a Ferrari > without any > wheels...i'm not paying x amount for a silly aluminum > wheel" true. but I buy a Ferrari for the engine and bodywork and chassis engineering

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-01 Thread matthew patton
> charge a premium for their products but they ARE a > enterprise vendor.  You > wouldn't say something like "hey, where can i buy a Ferrari > without any > wheels...i'm not paying x amount for a silly aluminum > wheel" true. but I buy a Ferrari for the engine and bodywork and chassis engineering

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-01 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:58 PM, matthew patton wrote: > what with the home NAS conversations, what's the trick to buy a J4500 > without any drives? SUN like every other "enterprise" storage vendor thinks > it's ok to rape their customers and I for one, am not interested in paying > 10x for a sil

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-01 Thread Frank Cusack
http://www.memoryx.net/5410456.html I've bought sleds for X4150s and X2270s from them. interesting mis-description on the web page. thumper doesn't use SCA drives. -frank ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolar

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-01 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2010-02-01 23:01:33, Tim Cook wrote: | | On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:58 PM, matthew patton wrote: | | > what with the home NAS conversations, what's the trick to buy a J4500 | > without any drives? SUN like every

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-01 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:58 PM, matthew patton wrote: > what with the home NAS conversations, what's the trick to buy a J4500 > without any drives? SUN like every other "enterprise" storage vendor thinks > it's ok to rape their customers and I for one, am not interested in paying > 10x for a sil

[zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-01 Thread matthew patton
what with the home NAS conversations, what's the trick to buy a J4500 without any drives? SUN like every other "enterprise" storage vendor thinks it's ok to rape their customers and I for one, am not interested in paying 10x for a silly SATA hard drive. _