Top quality SCSI drives cost $1 per
600MB. Even when you add associated hardware, it is hard to imagine that drive
costs could be the deciding issue
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On September 4, at 1:17 PM September 4, Peter J Murray wrote:
....
Putting more money into our system is not a bad thing at
all,
and I suspect it costs much less
than people think it does. For
example, this front end software
costs $3,000 for unlimited users. ....
I'm not paying too much attention to this discussion, but I did attend
a NCC meeting last year where some options were discussed.
The big ticket item (to my mind) was expanding the file system. (I
think it is EMC brand?) The number tossed out then was around half a million.
That was to increase the storage limit for all accounts.
It seemed very expensive to me, but I don't run very busy, mission
critical services that use multiple front ends against a common file store.
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