On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Tim Cook <t...@cook.ms> 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 you have, they increase the price of the drives. Seems fairly > reasonable to me... it gives a low point of entry for people that don't need > that much storage without using ridiculous capacity based licensing on > software. >
Smells like the Razor and Blades business model [1]. 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/EMC/etc). Just shows how bad the disk vendors are. I would be curious to know how the internal process of testing these drives work at Sun/EMC/etc when they find bugs and performance problems. Do they have access to the firmware's source code to fix it ? Or do they report the bugs back to Seagate/WD and they provide a new firmware for tests ? Do those bugs get fixed in other drives that Seagate/WD sells ? For me it's just hard to objectively point out the differences between Seagate's enterprise drives and the ones provided by Sun except that they were tested more. 1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebie_marketing -- Giovanni
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