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