On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Joel Buckley <joel.buck...@sun.com> wrote: > How much is your time worth?
Quite a bit. > Consider the engineering effort going into every Sun Server. > Any system from Sun is more than sufficient for a home server. > You want more disks, then buy one with more slots. Done. A few years ago, I put together the NAS box currently in use at home for $300 for 1TB of space. Mind you, I recycled the RAM from another box and the four 250GB disks were free. I think 250 drives were around $200 at the time, so let's say the system price was $1200. I don't think there's a Sun server that takes 4+ drives anywhere near $1200. The X4200 uses 2.5" drives, but costs $4255. Actually adding more drives ups the cost further. That means the afternoon I spent setting my server up was worth $3000. I should tell my boss that. A more reasonable comparison would be the Ultra 24. A system with 4x250 drives is $1650. I could build a 4 TB system today for *less* than my 1TB system of 2 years ago, so let's use 3x750 + 1x250 drives. (That's all the store will let me) and the price jumps to $2641. Assume that I buy the cheapest x64 system (the X2100 M2 at $1228) and add a drive tray because I want 4 drives ... well I can't. The cheapest drive tray is $7465. I have trouble justifying Sun hardware for many business applications that don't require SPARC, let alone for the home. For custom systems that most tinkerers would want at home, a shop like Silicon Mechanics (http://www.siliconmechanics.com/) (or even Dell or HP) is almost always a better deal on hardware. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
