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) -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast