Dell (and, really, all server providers apart from Supermicro) have crazy markups on storage. It's where they make most of their margin. And then, most of the

Dell (and, really, all server providers apart from Supermicro) have crazy markups on storage. It's where they make most of their margin. And then, most of the time, the drives they sell come on custom sleds that they don't sell separately as a form of DRM/lock in. Then you get a nice little trade on Chinese-made sleds that sort of work, but not for anything recent like hot swap NVMe drives. I'm sure BB were able to negotiate down a lot (Dell usually come down 50% off the list price if you press them hard enough for one off projects), but... yeah. That's how it generally goes.