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I hear this point from time to time, but you have to realise that consumer-grade hardware would never be used in any reasonable company. The business risk of no

I hear this point from time to time, but you have to realise that consumer-grade hardware would never be used in any reasonable company. The business risk of not having a support contract in place is too high, so you need a support contract, which means buying supportable hardware, which means enterprise-grade gear, which means enterprise pricing. Your 50TB just turned into a 10TB array in a disk shelf plus some tape storage, at probably 20-30 grand total, plus support.

ilyt 3y ago
If you decide to be scammed by enterprise hardware vendors instead of hiring competent people because your management is a bunch of hacks that's your company problem. Anyway Segate Exos SAS 20TB drive is $409, you can re-do math for "true enterprise" grade hardware. "Enterprise" drive from SAN vendor will be a normal hard drive with some bits in firmware changed so SAN can reject non-SAN-vendor rebrands. They die just the same, we had stacks of them to prove it. Hell, some of our Intel enterprise NVMes died suspiciously quickly compared to other but that might be a fluke...