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RE: Disk is cheap?

From: Grabowy, Chris <cgrabowy_at_fcg.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:08:36 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0042D28D.20020319080836@fatcity.com>


D'oh! (quickly and quietly running away as the bombs and nukes come flying in)

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Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 10:13 AM
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Wouldn't it be cheaper just to replace each drive with a bigger one rather than buying all of the infrastructure related stuff? If you replace 8gb drives with 80gb drives you just saved 9 cabinets.

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:08 AM
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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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