Well, our vendor continues to be IX Systems (for the most part).

However, instead of buying exclusively supermicro from them, we are now buying these Hitachi 60bay JBODs:

http://www.hgst.com/products/platforms/4U60G2-storage-platfo...

It really bugs that supermicro went this way. They used to be a very boring company that did nothing but build great chassis. I used to jokingly say that "supermicro is the rsync.net of hardware".

But now they're getting cute and that's never a good sign.