This Information Week article by Charlie Babcock sums it up nicely: http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=19160 0197
Sun sells and supports the data warehouse appliance (we call it Thumper DW) at prices between $15K and $20K per Terabyte. Off-the-shelf single rack configurations include 10,40 and 100TB of net usable database storage with scan rates up to 1 Terabyte per minute. Thumper DW scales to 1,200 Terabytes (1.2 Petabytes) in twelve racks with a scan rate of 12 Terabytes per minute. - Luke ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings