[dba-SQLServer] Outlandish Pricing?

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

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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
>>
>>
>>
>
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> Canada
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