Re:RE: Disk is cheap?

We say that disk is cheap, but that is a relative term. Yes an individual drive may be inexpensive, but if your using anykind or raid or mirroring (as we are) then each GB of space is twice as expensive as the individual part because you need two drives. Also, don't forget the cost of backing up that drive and keeping several copies thereof.

Dick Goulet

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Date:       3/19/2002 6:08 AM

I beg to differ.

Each disk cost the disk price + 1/24 of the infrastructure costs.

Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services
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> Sent: Mon, March 18, 2002 10:33 PM
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> Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP wrote:
> >
> > But disk is cheap, right...?
> > Or is that yet another Urban Legend???
>
> Yes, that's another Urban Legend.
>
> Disk DRIVES are cheap, disk SPACE is not so cheap.
>
> Consider this example: I have a disk cabinet with 24 slots and 23
> disks. The 24th disk is cheap, but how much does the 25th disk cost? In
> addition to the disk drive we need a cabinet, controllers, cache, host
> adapters, cables, floor space, environmental controls, installation,
> configuration, management, maintenance contract, and on and on.
>
> Mark Stahlke
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