Hi
Hmm, I may have confused the term "bay" here :)
What I meant is this:
The connectors on the servers don't look like standard SAS or SATA connectors, so I assume you absolutely have to buy an original expensive (-ish) disk and can't mount your own (reasonably priced) disks.
Cheers
On 19 Feb 2010, at 15:14, Tonnerre Lombard wrote:
Salut,
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:34:04 +0100, Mathias Seiler mathias.seiler@mironet.ch wrote:
That is so not true! Even if you buy a Sun Fire with 0 hard disks you still get all drive bays along with the server so you can mount your own disks in a minute.
Last time I checked, I received just "dummy"-bays (not really what one needs to mount own drives).
I'm a rather frequent and loyal Sun customer, I think over time I must have bought just about every Fire model, and they all came with empty drive bays where no hard disks have been ordered. I never saw any «dummy» or unusable bay between the years 2000 and 2010.
You can still buy the "cheapest" hard drive (so you get a bay) and swap the disk though :)
You can do that as well if you like.
Tonnerre
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