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> For example "3.2TB Enterprise NVMe Mixed Use AG Drive U.2 Gen4 with carrier" is $3,301.65 each That’s the pricing for people who don’t know to ask for real p
by amluto 3y ago
> For example "3.2TB Enterprise NVMe Mixed Use AG Drive U.2 Gen4 with carrier" is $3,301.65 each
That’s the pricing for people who don’t know to ask for real pricing — it’s an absolute joke. I don’t know how might extra margin gets captured here, but it’s a lot.
Even in teeny tiny volumes, Dell will give something closer to real pricing, and a decent heuristic is that it’s at least 2x cheaper.
This is a real SSD. Dell likely buys this brand and others:
https://www.serversupply.com/SSD/NVMe/30.72TB/KIOXIA/KCMY1RUG30T7_376111.htm https://www.serversupply.com/SSD/NVMe/30.72TB/KIOXIA/KCMY1RU...
Yes, that is almost an order of magnitude cheaper per TiB. If you buy from a sketchier vendor, you’ll get all the way to 10x :)
- 1123581321 3y agoDoesn’t Oxide also negotiate pricing?
- Temporary_31337 3y agoAnd they keep the margin to have money for R&D. I kind of get it because it’s low volume for now but I don’t necessarily see the appeal of being an early adopter here.
- panick21_ 3y agoThe appeal is that your a buying into an open infrastructure system, rather then closed firmware and VMWare (now owned by ... Broadcom).
- bnprks 3y agoThanks for the link, and very good to know. I've always struggled to find component prices for Kioxia drives and higher-capacity RAM sticks so it's good to see I can finally look these up on serversupply when I'm curious.