On 07/11/11 9:53 AM, Drew wrote:
I stand corrected in that area. Tho, even upgrading to a LSI MegaRAID 9260 w/ BBU only brings you into the $1000 price range so unless you're buying $1000 pizza boxes from Supermicro (not knocking the brand, I use their kit at home ) that's still not even close to the price of a decently spec'd IBM or HP server. Of course our spec comes in around $6k per box. ;-)
I recently got some quotes on some HP DL servers, the HP p410 w/ 1GB flash-backed cache (no batteries to replace ever) PN 572532-B21 was MSRP $750 before any corporate discounts. this is a 8 channel 6gbps SAS controller (2 internal 4-channel connectors)
my configuration also came to about $6K/box but that was a mighty powerful box (25 2.5" SAS bays, 12 core 2.8Ghz 48GB ram, and said raid controller)