The drive supplier to HPE is irrelevant
From the article:
Or it could be HPE trying tothrow a vendor under a busapportion blame for the outages.
Doesn't matter who the MSD (Mass Storage Device, using it to indicate either HDD or SSD - or even tape - devices) manufacturer was, in the same way with the ABS/Census debacle where IBM (the prime contractor) is trying to blame one of its subcontractors.
When an Enterprise purchases a solution like HPE 3PAR, it isn't Samsung, WD, Seagate, Fujitsu, Toshiba (or whoever is going to buy the HDD division from that rotting carcass) that the vendor is buying MSDs from, it is HPE they are buying from. It is HPE's responsibility, and no one else's, to qualify, verify, and supply the device.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
