RE: Disk is cheap?

Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services wrote:

        I beg to differ.

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

You are correct, of course.

My point is that the infrastructure cost is much higher than the cost of the disk drives alone. The last disk array I was involved in purchasing cost around $75K - $80K not including disks. It had 24 slots. That's over $3K per slot. The disks were a little more than $1K each. The slots cost about 3 times as much as the disk drives and that doesn't include the "soft" costs of installation, configuration, maintenance, etc.

I stand by my statement that disk drives are cheap but disk space is not so cheap.

Cheers,
Mark Stahlke
Oracle DuhBA
Denver Newspaper Agency

> -----Original Message-----
> From: adary_at_mehish.co.il [SMTP:adary_at_mehish.co.il]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 7:08 AM
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> Subject: RE: Disk is cheap?
>
> 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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