On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, David Power wrote:
|Have you priced 630 memory lately? I was quoted $12,000 for a 32 meg |nvram, 256 meg system ram upgrade. Thats not dropping to me.
Netapps ram prices are borderline on fraud. Please show me the added value Netapp. All netapp does is buy Samsung DRAM and Dallas SEmiconductor NVRAM, then drops them in a memory tester.
THEN, they raise the price 1,000%.
The 1M NVRAM simms in our F220 were $84/each (quantity 1), and I believe the 4M NVRAM simms in our F630 were $200 or so. The netapp price (After discount) was several orders of magnitude higher.
Another issue: Netapp hard drive prices
Our latest quote on an upgrade for an F630 at a 41% discount level had the 9gig hard drives at $2900/each.
Same model drive from a reseller off http://www.pricewatch.com
Seagate 9.1GB ST19171W Barracuda Ultra Wide SCSI 8ms $ 739 De Vine Computer Sales 800-699-4049
Hmm....4 drives for the price of 1 magic netapp drive? The burnin testing it just not flying with me. For the price savings on a 26drive upgrade, we could buy *ANOTHER* F630 chassis to use just for burning in drives/ram.
Will netapp disclose their burin software by chance?
Jonah "Who doesn't work for a fortune500 company and actually pays attention to budgets" Yokubaitis
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