On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Marc Nicholas wrote:
Subject says it all: anyone doing it? Any success or horror stories? Any caveats?
We've had zero problems with Seagate 'cudda drives and Kingston parity SIMM's in the very first filer we bought. That same filer did have a disk problem, but it was with one of the four drives shipped by Netapp. All our other filers have had Netapp-sourced components, and I think every single one has had at least one component replaced.
We sourced the DEC Storageworks canisters and the drives separately, and spent a few hours putting them together, but they were a third the price from Netapp. The Kingston RAM was something like 80% off what Netapp wanted for 32MB SIMM's, so we could afford to buy double what we needed, in case one batch was bad. We've never had to swap any out yet. Can't say the same for Netapp-supplied RAM. :-/