20k list gets you into a decked out storevault with FCP/iSCSI/NFS... For being "just a jbod" this thing is ridiculously overpriced, sorry.
I'm normally the first one to defend Sun when it come to decisions made due to an enterprise customer base, but this will not be one of those situations. On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will Murnane wrote: > > If the prices on disks were lower on these, they would be interesting > > for low-end businesses or even high-end home users. The chassis is > > within reach of reasonable, but the disk prices look ludicrously high > > from where I sit. An empty one only costs $3k, sure, but fill it with > > twelve disks and it's up to $20k. Are there some extra electronics > > required for larger disks that help explain this steep slope of cost? > > I can't think of any reasons off the top of my head (other than the > > understandable profit motive). > > > > > I guess most large customers only compare storage costs against other > storage vendors. Most shops I've worked with only buy fully populated > shelves and none of them pay list! > > Ian > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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