From: Christophe Dupre (duprec@scorec.rpi.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 09 2002 - 13:53:11 EST
Hello everyone,
we just bought six V100 from Sun to be used as infrastructure servers (you
know, DNS, LDAP, syslog, etc). We expected to be able to put 3rd party
drives and memory in them as Sun's is really ovepriced : $250 list
($200 discounted) for a 40GB hard drive, and nothing bigger available. I
can get a 80GB Seagate at the campus store for $120. Except that the 3rd
party won't have the required bracket, and according to my Sun rep I can't
get a disk bracket by itself.
I don't know what is Sun's strategy here, but it's not increasing their
market share. I already have increasing difficulty to justify a Sun
machine, having to pay double for a stupid bracket will not help my case.
So, is there anyone here who knows if that bracket has a part number, or
of a 3rd party that sells such brackets ? As far as I can tell, the Netra
X1 uses the same kind.
-- Christophe Dupre System Administrator, Scientific Computation Research Center Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY USA Phone: (518) 276-2578 - Fax: (518) 276-4886 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
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