From: Wes Kussmaul <wes@authentrus.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:57:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB7E8C2.3070505@authentrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77f5fdd3ba78c6634ec86bc12fc01dd5@quanstro.net>
erik quanstrom wrote:
> storage vendors have a credibility problem. i think the big
> storage vendors, as referenced in the op, sell you on many
> things you don't need for much more than one has to spend.
Those of us who know something about Coraid understand that your company
doesn't engage in fudili practices.
> so i understand one is not inclined to believe a storage guy
> about the need for something that's more expensive.
Maybe the appliance example was misplaced; no skepticism of your take on
drive quality was intended. After all, you don't make the drives. I'm
genuinely interested in the view of a storage systems pro like yourself
about how an outsider like me who buys drives at tigerdirect can discern
an "enterprise" drive when I see one.
Wes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-21 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-14 16:43 erik quanstrom
2009-09-20 20:13 ` Bakul Shah
2009-09-21 3:37 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-21 17:43 ` Bakul Shah
2009-09-21 18:02 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-21 18:49 ` Wes Kussmaul
2009-09-21 19:21 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-21 20:57 ` Wes Kussmaul [this message]
2009-09-21 22:42 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-22 10:59 ` matt
2009-09-21 19:10 ` Bakul Shah
2009-09-21 20:30 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-21 20:57 ` Jack Norton
2009-09-21 23:38 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-21 22:07 ` Bakul Shah
2009-09-21 23:35 ` Eris Discordia
2009-09-22 0:45 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] ` <6DC61E4A6EC613C81AC1688E@192.168.1.2>
2009-09-21 23:50 ` Eris Discordia
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-09-04 0:53 Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-04 1:20 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-04 9:37 ` matt
2009-09-04 14:30 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-04 16:54 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-09-04 12:24 ` Eris Discordia
2009-09-04 12:41 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-04 13:56 ` Eris Discordia
2009-09-04 14:10 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-04 18:34 ` Eris Discordia
[not found] ` <48F03982350BA904DFFA266E@192.168.1.2>
2009-09-07 20:02 ` Uriel
2009-09-08 13:32 ` Eris Discordia
2009-09-04 16:52 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-09-04 17:27 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-04 17:37 ` Jack Norton
2009-09-04 18:33 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-08 16:53 ` Jack Norton
2009-09-08 17:16 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-08 18:17 ` Jack Norton
2009-09-08 18:54 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-14 15:50 ` Jack Norton
2009-09-14 17:05 ` Russ Cox
2009-09-14 17:48 ` Jack Norton
2009-09-04 23:25 ` James Tomaschke
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