Dave, I don't have to Google it, because I know the drive in a cardboard box at Fry's will cost less than the Disk Drive FRU, when it goes into an Enterprise Storage box.
I'd like to know if the Seagate or Hitachi drive from Fry's includes an account SE, a CE to install it, phone home monitoring, non-disruptive replacement, a dynamic spare, FC or SAS active/active dual ports, and access to a guy like me with a lab to recreate and advise on your critical performance problems? Does someone turn up in the middle of the night with a replacement when a drive you purchase from the internet dies, or does it take a month to get a replacement under warranty? Like the old adage says "you get what you pay for." And of course it is not price gouging for Mainframe disk. You vendor will add all that support cost, margin, whatever, whether it's formatted for Mainframe or Open Systems. Do you think that your argument is a bit like using the primary cost of rubber to compare the cost of the windshield wiper blades on my Mustang with a Ferrari. Ron > > > > Google a price for this: > > SEAGATE ST3500320NS 465.76 GiB > > Our vendor charges us $1200 each for these. We have to use theirs to > maintain support. > > Not direct attached. Contents of an array behind a VTL appliance. Attached > to a mainframe. The disk cost the same no matter what host they're attached > to. Not sure if this meets your definition of "price gouging" nor "cheap > disk". > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
