On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:41 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
> On 03/14/12 12:16 PM, Steve Crawford wrote:
>>
>> I was just looking at some modest-sized 15k SAS drives that priced out in
>> the $400-550 range. 25 of them would add a minimum of $10,000 to the price
>> tag. Still under 6-figures, though.
>
>
> those disks aren't any cheaper when they are behind a EMC or NetApp
> SAN/NAS...
>
> in fact, most any of the 'big name' enterprise storage vendors would charge
> about triple that for each disk.
Note that if you don't need a lot of storage you can often use 300G
15k SAS drives which are around $300 each. 20 of those in a RAID-10
gives you ~3TB of storage which is plenty for most transactional
applications.