On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Matthew W. Ross <mr...@ephrataschools.org> wrote: > which is a whopping $6650 plus S/H. On the bright side, you have > 24 TB of pre-raid storage...
You could always build a Backblaze Storage Pod. 67 terabytes for <$8000 in 2009. http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ ;-) (Note: Not seriously suggesting this for anyone in particular, I just think it's a neat concept.) > (Remember, there is no guarantee it will.) Some me the guarantee that $VENDOR's NAS/SAN/whatever box will do everything I want. :-) I don't disagree that sometimes it's worth paying for a packaged product. You're trading cash for labor, and that's often worth it, especially since they get economies of scale you don't (i.e., they can spread most of their NRE across their many customers). They handle component selection and acquisition, assembly, internal testing, etc. That's nothing to shake a stick at. But one occasionally sees the idea that buying a packaged product means in-house knowledge and integration concerns disappear. I get that all the time from other department heads at $WORK -- "All we need to do is buy $PRODUCT, right?" Oh, if only it was that easy... :) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
