Re: 160 gig's is not enough?

>>What does this cost?
>
>
> A good chunk of change, but it's still cheap when you figure cost per GB.
>
> The unit itself is $3,995. As of today, 15 400GB hard drives are 15 * $235 =
> $3525 (even cheaper than when we bought ours, by about $30 each). That's a
> total of $7520. That gives you 6000GB of raw storage, so it works out to
> $1.253 per GB, which is the cheapest you will find anywhere.
>
> And the nice thing about these units is that when you add more, you don't
> really have to add more expensive hardware. That is, no more FibreChannel
> switches, no SCSI cards, etc. Get an 8 port Gb switch, and you're good to
> do. Or, do what I'm doing, and connect the units directly to the servers via
> a Cat6 crossover cable.
>
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>

Thanks Joshua, I am going to run this by our finance manager and see if
we can't get it. I would definitely need to test it out on my mythtv box
at home first to make sure it works. :)

I have 1.5TB of space but it is still not enough for all of my archiving
needs.

Jon
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Received on Thu Jul 21 12:39:36 2005