[TriLUG] Unix freaks, check out this hardware vendor

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Thu Oct 24 12:11:50 EDT 2002


On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 12:04, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 11:56 AM, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> 
> > The sun store (http://store.sun.com) lists the "36-GB 10000 RPM
> > UltraSCSI Disk Drive" for $1300.   (The one I selected is compatible
> > with the E450; I just sort of chose that at random.)  So I suppose 
> > $1000
> > isn't out-of-line given that list price.
> 
> IIRC, the E450 uses FC-AL drives which would drive the price up.

Good point, but it only raises the price a little from the U320 drives. 
A Fujitsu FC-AL-2 drive with the same specs is only $276 for example.
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10312384&hdwt=30401&loc=101

--Jeremy




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