[TriLUG] Unix freaks, check out this hardware vendor

[Reginald Reed]

Absolutely!  When I was responsible for Sun hardware, under HW support
or not, I *always* had spare drives in case of failure because waiting
even 3-4 hours for a tech to arrive to replace a drive just wasn't
acceptable.  Thank goodness the street prices for SCA drives were/are
still cheap and allow you to keep spares without a huge investment.

--Reggie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-admin at trilug.org 
> [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On Behalf Of John Beimler
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 1:38 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Unix freaks, check out this hardware vendor
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 13:36, Reginald Reed wrote:
> > For things such as disk drives, Sun doesn't have any special parts. 
> > They are the same thing you can buy elsewhere for *MUCH* 
> cheaper with 
> > the same MTBF.
> 
> Yup, and you are SOL if you need Sun hardware support.  Of 
> course if you're paying for Sun Hardware support, $1000 disk 
> drives are the least of your cost issues.
> 
> Peace.
> 
> john