This is the statisticians way of looking at it, not the purchasing agents.
:-)) RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP Oracle DBA Technical Lead CSX Midtier Database Administration The Cigarette Smoking Man: Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him. -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I beg to differ. Each disk cost the disk price + 1/24 of the infrastructure costs. Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Stahlke, Mark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Mon, March 18, 2002 10:33 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: Disk is cheap? > > Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP wrote: > > > > But disk is cheap, right...? > > Or is that yet another Urban Legend??? > > Yes, that's another Urban Legend. > > Disk DRIVES are cheap, disk SPACE is not so cheap. > > Consider this example: I have a disk cabinet with 24 slots and 23 > disks. The 24th disk is cheap, but how much does the 25th disk cost? In > addition to the disk drive we need a cabinet, controllers, cache, host > adapters, cables, floor space, environmental controls, installation, > configuration, management, maintenance contract, and on and on. > > Mark Stahlke > Oracle DuhBA > Denver Newspaper Agency > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Stahlke, Mark > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: =?iso-8859-8?Q?=E0=E3=F8_=E9=E7=E9=E0=EC?= INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Freeman, Robert INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
