Les Mikesell wrote:
On 1/8/2010 11:41 AM, nate wrote:
Ray Van Dolson wrote:
Out of curiosity, any idea what a full cabinet of one of these runs?
Over $1M pretty easily, probably close/more than $2M.
I think you are confusing it with something else. Somewhere I saw that these list around $400k for 80TB - but the way IBM pricing usually works is that you get volume discounts or you give them someone else's quote to get the price down.
Depends on the config
# Up to 21 CPUs # Up to 72 Gbps internal switching capacity # Up to 120 GB cache memory # Up to 240 Gbps cache to disk bandwidth # Up to 180 VHDSR (Very High Density Slower Rotational), 1 TB, 7200 rpm disks # Up to 24 Fiber Channel ports offering 4 Gbps, 2Gbps or 1 Gbps multi-mode and single-mode support # Up to 6 iSCSI ports offering iSCSI over Gigabit Ethernet connectivity
The poster asked for a fully loaded config so I suspect the $1-2M price is reasonable with 21 CPUs and 120GB of cache.
For a system with so many fancy features I find it surprising it only seems to go to 180 disks, would be quite a bit more useful if it went to say 1000 disks(incrementally of course), maybe that's down the road.
nate