Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services wrote: I beg to differ. Each disk cost the disk price + 1/24 of the infrastructure costs.
You are correct, of course. My point is that the infrastructure cost is much higher than the cost of the disk drives alone. The last disk array I was involved in purchasing cost around $75K - $80K not including disks. It had 24 slots. That's over $3K per slot. The disks were a little more than $1K each. The slots cost about 3 times as much as the disk drives and that doesn't include the "soft" costs of installation, configuration, maintenance, etc. I stand by my statement that disk drives are cheap but disk space is not so cheap. Cheers, Mark Stahlke Oracle DuhBA Denver Newspaper Agency > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 7:08 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: Disk is cheap? > > 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: 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).