From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 17 0:17:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from freesbee.t.dk (freesbee.t.dk [193.162.159.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C88414C94 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 00:17:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesper@freesbee.t.dk) Received: (qmail 11422 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Jun 1999 07:17:41 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:17:41 +0200 From: Jesper Skriver To: "David H. Brierley" Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , Joe Mays , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netapps Message-ID: <19990617091741.B11116@skriver.dk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.2i In-Reply-To: ; from David H. Brierley on Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 10:11:24PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 10:11:24PM -0400, David H. Brierley wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Joe Mays wrote: > > > Does anyone know of an oem source for scsi drives for use in Netapps > > > Filers? Network Appliance charges obscene amounts for what are really > > > > You mean SCA drives? > > The drives themselves are standard drives, just make sure you buy the > same exact model as the ones you already have in the filer. The hard > part is finding the carriers. I don't know of any place to buy those, > although there must be someone that sells them. I recently installed > a replacement 9 gb drive in one of my filers and I only paid a little > over $300 for the drive. Netapp charges almost $2000 for the same > drive. Something tells me that the carrier is not worth $1600! If it's old, it plain Digital Storage Works, if it's newer, it's from Eurologic in Ireland. /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver (JS4261-RIPE), Network manager Tele Danmark DataNet, IP section (AS3292) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message