On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Jim Davis wrote:
I've got to wonder if there isn't a cheaper solution. Has anyone got a source for "approved" drives in cannisters (and ideally shelves, too) that's a little closer to market pricing?
Ask your sales rep for their table of approved drives. I was able to easily source 14 of the appropriate Barracuda 4GB drives (down to the correct firmware revision) from one of our other vendors. Same goes for the DEC StorageWorks canisters and the read cache SIMM's. The rest of the filer is still under Netapp's hardware support agreement too.
Netapp really needs to needs to take a hard look at their component pricing. Whatever testing they do in-house does not seem to make any difference in the real world, as we've had problems only with Netapp-sourced components. The third-party stuff has yet to require replacement, and they've been in use the longest.