On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:55 PM, matthew patton <patto...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Enter the J4500, 48 drives in 4U, what looks to be solid engineering, and
> redundancy in all the right places. An empty chassis at $3000 is totally
> justifiable. Maybe as high as $4000. In comparison a naked Dell MD1000 is
> $2000. If you do the subtraction from SUN's claimed "breakthru" pricing of
> $1/GB, the chassis cost works out to $4000. I can live with that.
>
> Now look up the price for 24TB and it's 28 freaking thousand!
There's your first mistake. You're probably eligible for a very nice
Federal Systems discount. My *guess* would be about 40%.
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