On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Jim Klimov wrote:
On 2012-11-17 17:17, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
Prices I have seen this year for Enterprise SAS and SATA drives did not
show a large bump in price for SAS as compared with SATA (maybe only
$20-30). Other than the SAS controller, there is not much extra cost
for SAS as compared with SATA
I think, speaking about "ridiculous pricing" the OP meant Consumer SATA
versus Enterprise SATA and SAS. While the latter cost about the same,
they are often twice or more as expensive as the former, for the same
vendor's sibling model.
Before claiming "ridiculous pricing", it is useful to examine the
specification sheet. There may be a 10X difference in the uncorrected
media error rate, or error rate may not be specified at all.
Hard drive prices from big-name system vendors are often "ridiculous"
since they use arbitrary pricing methods which may result in the drive
costing 3X or more in the system than it costs in the open market.
The same is true for memory.
Bob
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