On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjeti...@linpro.no>wrote:
> matthew patton <patto...@yahoo.com> writes: > > > true. but I buy a Ferrari for the engine and bodywork and chassis > > engineering. It is totally criminal what Sun/EMC/Dell/Netapp do > > charging customers 10x the open-market rate for standard drives. A > > RE3/4 or NS drive is the same damn thing no matter if I buy it from > > ebay or my local distributor. Dell/Sun/Netapp buy drives by the > > container load. Oh sure, I don't mind paying an extra couple > > pennies/GB for all the strenuous efforts the vendors spend on firmware > > verification (HA!). > > I don't know what the J4500 drive sled contains, but for the J4200 and > J4400 they need to include quite a bit of circuitry to handle SAS > protocol all the way, for multipathing and to be able to accept a mix of > SAS and SATA drives. it's not just a piece of sheet metal, some plastic > and a LED. > > the pricing does look strange, and I think it would be better to raise > the price of the enclosure (which is silly cheap when empty IMHO) and > reduce the drive prices somewhat. but that's just psychology, and > doesn't really matter for total cost. > > -- > Kjetil T. Homme > Redpill Linpro AS - Changing the game > > > Why exactly would that be better? Then it's a high cost of entry. What if an SMB only needs 6 drives day one? Why charge them an arm and a leg for the enclosure, and nothing for the drives? Again, the idea is that you're charging based on capacity. Generally speaking, an entity that needs tons and tons of storage has the money to pay for it. Home users ripping legitimately or pirating illegitimately movie's and music excluded. --Tim
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