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RE: RE: Disk is cheap?

From: Baker, Barbara <bbaker_at_denvernewspaperagency.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:38:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0042D163.20020319073825@fatcity.com>


Sun is currently charging us $10,000 a year in maintenance fees just for our disk drives.
And that's just on 1 system. We have 2 others just like it . . .

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> From: dgoulet_at_vicr.com[SMTP:dgoulet_at_vicr.com]
> Reply To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:03 AM
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> Subject: 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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> Author: =?iso-8859-8?Q?=E0=E3=F8_=E9=E7=E9=E0=EC?= <adary_at_mehish.co.il>
> 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
> adary_at_mehish.co.il
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stahlke, Mark [SMTP:mstahlke_at_denvernewspaperagency.com]
> > Sent: Mon, March 18, 2002 10:33 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: Disk is cheap?
> >
> > 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
> > Oracle DuhBA
> > Denver Newspaper Agency
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