Invisible wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Invisible wrote:
>>> http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/

>>
>> You can get a Dell with stuff like that for $3000. It's not *that* 
>> expensive. You can get a 4T hard drive case for like $250 or something 
>> (without the 4T of drives, of course).
> 
> Oh, "only" $3,000. Bargin. ;-)

Well, the $3000 covers dual power supplies, hardware raid, dual giabit 
ethernet, rack-mount, a year of Linux support from Novel, dual SATA 500G 
hard drives, 16G of RAM, four dual-core 2.<mumble> CPUs...

Yeah, not too bad.

It's not your desktop machine, no, but $3000 isn't a whole lot for a 
company. You can apparently lease them from Dell for <$50/month. Which 
is like one good person's salary for an hour, counting taxes and 
expenses and such the employer has to pay.

You can't look at stuff you run a business on and say "Wow, that's 
expensive for a desktop", any more than you can look at a bus and say 
"Wow, that costs way too much for something to commute to work in."

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     On what day did God create the body thetans?

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