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A 48TB Sun X4540 is 50K (list price, sun.com) (2x6core, 32GB RAM, 4xGigE, 4U, 2 year warranty).
by notaddicted 17y ago
A 48TB Sun X4540 is 50K (list price, sun.com) (2x6core, 32GB RAM, 4xGigE, 4U, 2 year warranty).
- mikeryan 17y agoThe BackBlaze device is $8K for 67TB.
- gaius 17y agoWith 1 processor and 4G RAM.
- mikeryan 17y agoSo if you normalize this a bit, for around 50K you can get 6 BackBlazes (6 processors, 24GB of RAM and 402TB of storage). Obviously we're still considering apples and oranges to taking this too much further would likely be silly. But its still pretty impressive numbers.