Hi Shannon, The markup is still pretty high on a per-drive basis. That being said, $1-2/GB is darn low for the capacity in a server. Plus, you're also paying for having enough HyperTransport I/O to feed the PCI-E I/O.
Does anyone know what problems they had with the 250GB version of the Thumper that caused them to pull it? Best Regards, Jason On 1/20/07, Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Frank Cusack wrote: > > thumper (x4500) seems pretty reasonable ($/GB). > > -frank I am always amazed that people consider thumper to be reasonable in price. 450% or more markup per drive from street price in July 2006 numbers doesn't seem reasonable to me, even after subtracting the cost of the system. I like the x4500, I wish I had one. But, I can't pay what Sun wants for it. So, instead, I am stuck buying lower end Sun systems and buying third party SCSI/SATA JBODs. I like Sun. I like their products, but I can't understand their storage pricing most of the time. -Shannon _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
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