On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Chen, Ray wrote:
|The truly sad thing is that you are correct in that |most people won't buy Michael's argument but that |Michael is correct when he tries to communicate |how much work goes into disk drive qualification |and how painful the problems can be if you try |and put in joe-random-disk drive, even the same |model from the same vendor, and get unlucky. | |Heck, *I* didn't buy the argument until I spent |a few years at another company where I exposed to |some of what happens in drive qualification and |saw what could go wrong in the lab and in the field. | |To be safe, you really need the same vendor, same |drive, and exact same firmware and that's typically |very hard to get unless you buy from the system vendor |instead of the drive vendor. Even then, that's not |a guarantee that you won't get bit, your odds are |just better.
Ray,
If that's the case, then why does one of our F630s (9gig SCSI drives in it) having 2 *different* model numbers of drives in it? All drives came directly from Netapp.
Jonah
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