On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 08:00 -0600, Aaron Benner wrote: > We have an EMC AX150i here and it works very well, but EMC's policy > makes it pretty expensive. We just added 8 720 GB drives to our > unit. The drives could be purchased commodity for about $80-120, but > to put them into the EMC box we had to purchase "certified" units with > the mounting sleds for $500 per. Seemed like a pretty steep markup at > the time. That is par for the course, they all come in platinum sleds whether you get EMC, HP, IBM etc. Last time I looked list price for a 1TB SATA drive for an IBM DS5000 was something like 2000 USD. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +441382-386998 Storage Administrator, College of Life Sciences University of Dundee, DD1 5EH -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
