[j-nsp] High failure rates for M7i/M10i hard disks?

[Lars Erik Gullerud]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Joe McGuckin wrote:

> It seems like this was an ill-advised attempt to lower the manufacturing
> cost of the RE.
>
> However, for the price they charge for the RE ($15,000 list price for
> compact PCI cpu card that probably cost them no more than $2500), one would
> certainly think that Juniper would specify 'industrial' or 'server' quality
> components. I hope we're not going to see further reliability issues because
> some purchasing manager decided to save $20 by specifying other components
> that were designed with a lifetime 5% or 10% duty-cycle.

Putting lower-spec (read: cheaper) HDDs into REs where they ALSO shaved 
costs by no longer putting internal flash on them by default, is hopefully 
not symptomatic of a trend to let short-term financial gains outweigh 
engineering principles and customer satisfaction. However, with other 
recent Juniper decisions seeming to follow the same pattern (hm, IPv6 
licencing, anyone?), I must admit to having some fear for the future these 
days, after having preached Juniper to management and customers for the 
last few years...

/leg