Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 20:50:08 +1100 From: "Hallam Oaks" <mlnn4@oaks.com.au> To: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com> Cc: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Multi-terabyte disk farm Message-ID: <199810290949.UAA01506@mail.aussie.org>
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>Yesterday, IBM announced that they will now be making the Ultrastar 36XP a 36 >GB 7200 rpm 7.5ms 4Mb cache disk drive along the lines of their other drives. >This drive is available in Ultra2, SSA and FCAL interfaces. This would bring >you down to 28 drives and at "IBM estimated the list price of $1,575" >(http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,27995,00.html?st.ne.2.head) and run you >about $44100 for just the drives to give you 1TB of storage. Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you ;) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) I got this JUST in time to give it to the management finance meeting. It made my day ... as I'd already told them to expect 36 (or so) gb drives from IBM 'soonish'. I just didn't think it would be THIS soon. -- Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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