16 avril 2009
ISILON & Spare-Hard drive
We bought spare hard-drives for our ISILON Cluster (5x ISILON IQ 6000i with Infiniband switch).
When I opened the box, I was surprised: 500GB Hitachi Deskstar consumer-grade hard-drives, that are sold for less than 80$ usually!!!
Worse, they are in their Hitachi's packaging, ISILON doesn't even unpack them before shipping to test them, so you could end up putting a 500GB spare hard-drive in a server and discover that this drive isn't operational!
Amateur? Who said amateur???