matthew patton <patto...@yahoo.com> 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 > ebay or my local distributor. Dell/Sun/Netapp buy drives by the > container load. Oh sure, I don't mind paying an extra couple > pennies/GB for all the strenuous efforts the vendors spend on firmware > verification (HA!).
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 drives. it's not just a piece of sheet metal, some plastic and a LED. 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. -- Kjetil T. Homme Redpill Linpro AS - Changing the game _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
