Re: [cobalt-users] Adding disk in Raq 550

[Lyle Scheer <lyle.scheer@xxxxxxx>]

Peter Kiil wrote:

> on 19/06/02 21:47, Bruce Timberlake at Bruce.Timberlake@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Sun also sells extra disks as "X options" at the time of purchase, if you
> > want to buy the drives from us, so there should be no problem that we're
> > aware of in using the Barracuda IVs in a RAID configuration...
>
> But these "X-option" disks are the same as the retail drives, right?
> Firmware etc.

I would say no.... from an earlier e-mail from Bruce:

"we even got Seagate to make firmware-level timing changes in
the base product to make the disks behave better in our systems"

I would say that the retail drives would not have these changes in them....
food for thought when buying a retail level drive versus an x-option drive.

Note also that the typical Frys or other retail store will get drives that may
have gone through quite a few different resellers or other channels before
landing in the retail store.  Sun has a direct purchase agreement with Seagate
where the drives go directly from Seagate's factory to Sun's.

These things may or may not make a difference to you the user as you use a
drive from either source.

- Lyle