[dba-SQLServer] Outlandish Pricing?

John,

What I remember from the press release from something like last March was
2 tb for under $2000. And I think that it was mentioned that the appliance
could be upgraded to 6 tb? for a total cost of of around $6000. I just
downloaded a .ppt from the company website and will forward zipped, to
your email address.

Jim

> And what constitutes "pretty reasonable"?  1 terabyte is rapidly
> approaching
> unusable small.  Given that you can now purchase 750g drives shipped to
> your
> door for $350, a terabyte also starts looking a little humorous.
>
> I just finished building a system with 1.8gb usable raid 6.  The
> controller
> and all of the disks cost me $1300.  I just purchased another identical
> raid
> controller:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816131004
>
> I am currently building up another Raid 6 system with (8) 500gb drives for
> roughly $1700, for a total usable space of around 2.8 terabytes.  I can
> get
> a 16 drive controller for about $930, and 16 750g drives for $5280 which
> would leave 14 drives for the raid array (assuming that Raid6 takes 2 for
> parity) which translates to 4.9 terabytes for about $6200 for the
> controller
> and disks.
>
> Now obviously I am not a big company with a big company budget but the
> prices you see above are about the best you can get at my level.
> Likewise,
> this is not a full NAS solution, only the "controller down" hardware, but
> I
> can roll my own for "pretty reasonable".  I have never really found a
> packaged solution that was "pretty reasonable" for my budget.  I have no
> idea what the likes of Dell or HP would try to charge me for a 4.9 tb raid
> system, and I suspect I don't want to know.
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Moss
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 10:30 AM
> To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] Outlandish Pricing?
>
> My major client has a NAS solution that is pretty reasonable:
>
>
> http://www.newisys.com/core/na1400.html
>
>
>> Well then maybe you fall into this niche category
>>
>> Business Objects aims for midmarket
>> Launches new unit, product line for firms with less than $1B in
>> revenue
>>
>> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasi
>> c&taxonomyName=analytics&articleId=9010280&taxonomyId=161&intsrc=kc_to
>> p
>>
>>
>> artful at rogers.com wrote:
>>
>>>This snip (from
>>>
>>>http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=116900&WT.svl=news1_3
>>>)
>>>
>>>Philipines-based wireless service Smart Communications has deployed
>>>the  appliance to trawl data on its 22 million subscribers and run
>>>checks on  fraud and billing information. (See Smart Signs Greenplum.)
>>>Pricing for  Sun's Data Warehouse Appliance starts at around $22,000
>>>per Tbyte for a  20-Tbyte configuration.
>>>
>>>I am working via a colleague with a small client who has 62M rows in
>>>one  table in his database. Copy it once and he is past the 1TB
>>> boundary.
>>> According to the above, you cannot buy this in chunks smaller than
>>>20TB,  which translates to $440,000 per installation. Just what Mom
>>>'n' Pop  needs!
>>>
>>>Arthur Fuller
>>>Technical Writer, Data Modeler, SQL Sensei www.artfulsoftware.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Marty Connelly
>> Victoria, B.C.
>> Canada
>>
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