Re: You have 10K US$ and need 5TB's of storage for Oracle 10G RAC test environment...

Good info, Thanks Alex.

Ethan, you may have a hard time getting 10TB for 10k, but the prices it can be had for are much less than I imagined.

Still a little spendy for *this* home office however. :)

Jared

On 1/21/07, Alex Gorbachev <gorbyx_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you still want to follow your path, there is a new post today on
> StorageMojo - http://storagemojo.com/?p=352
> Note that they have an excellent resource with price lists. It might
> be very useful if you know what you are looking for.
>
> On 1/21/07, Alex Gorbachev <gorbyx_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would say it's wrong way to ask questions but common in the IT
> > industry these days (and probably not only IT). The right way would be
> > something like:
> >
> > We have this kind of applications doing this kind of activity. It will
> > require so many random IOs and so much IO bandwidth. The backups will
> > be such and such. Availability requirements are those. And etc...
> > Q: What's the cheapest piece of hardware I can buy to suit those
> > needs? (and don't forget recurring costs)
> >
> > If it's more than 10K - you either have to kill the project or
> > reconsider budgeting. One may argue that it's not a real life decision
> > but let's face it - you would have to make one of those decisions
> > later anyway when 10K "lost" already. Unless, of course, you are luck
> > and it fits.
> >
> > On 1/19/07, Ethan Post <post.ethan_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What would you buy? Is this even possible?
>
>
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> Alex Gorbachev
>
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