From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jan 16 13:31:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from roble.com (roble.com [206.40.34.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F8714A27 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:31:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sendmail@roble.com) Received: from roble2.roble.com (roble2.roble.com [206.40.34.52]) by roble.com (Roble1b) with SMTP id NAA10120 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:31:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:31:10 -0800 (PST) From: Roger Marquis To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infortrend RAID / Extending FBSD filesystem? In-Reply-To: <77019.948055405@noop.colo.erols.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Gary Palmer wrote: > The storage density on the A5200 has yet to be beaten AFAIK. Its a > fairly impressive unit. But you always pay extra for the purple paint > and the Sun logo, as much as 50%-100% over what you can get the > product for elsewhere (e.g. the A1000, D1000 and A3500 all use > equipment/software written by MetaStor, and you can get similar or > equivalent stuff a lot cheaper from MetaStor. Do they bundle a year's worth of hardware and software support, including warranty? Support has always been one of Sun's strong suites. The last time I had a bad GBIC, one of the early Vixels, they had a hardware engineer there within a couple of hours. That was on contract. Warranty support would have cross-shipped a replacement part next-day. A number of companys also offer s/w support contracts for Linux. I wonder what the market would be for FreeBSD support contracts? -- Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message