On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Gary Gendel <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a possibility of picking up a decommissioned X4340 (thumper) Hm. An X4340 is some sort of power transfer unit. Thumper = X4500 Thor = X4540 > w/o disks That's the killer. These boxes are very fussy about the drives that work; the real value of them now is for the disks they contain, you're going to have trouble getting drives (and it's going to cost). > to replace my aging V20z ( and multiple external drive stacks cheap. It > looks like it should be supported by looking at the HCL. > > Is there any gotchas I should be aware of before I commit to purchase? Is > there something more modern I should be looking at instead? > Probably look at something more modern, and something sized to suit. It really needs to be full of 48 drives, only a couple of models are supported, and they're all getting a bit old. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
