You have hit the nail on the head for why most "enterprise" gear is basically overpriced junk.
You have hit the nail on the head for why most "enterprise" gear is basically overpriced junk. That doesn't mean there isn't quality hardware out there, just that you have to be more selective. AKA do your own research and don't be dazed by the feature lists. Some of those features shouldn't actually be used. I personally tend to like the KISS arrays that don't have dedupe/replication/etc built in, and are web manageable. The extra bonus is that there are a metric boatload of tier 2 array vendors (imation's nexan for example) that provide rock solid hardware for a small fraction of the prices of EMC/etc. Its quite possible to get native capacity for less than a company like EMC charges for deduped capacity (aka 100TB from a tier two company can cost less than the 10TB deduped to 100TB from EMC). Raw RAID is pretty simple/understood in comparison to deduped solutions, and I think that has a significant affect on reliability. AKA more features, more latent bugs... Finally, get a bunch of demo units, and if the configuration UI is a mess of esoteric proprietary command line junk, or it is only configurable with a 32-bit java app that won't run on a 64-bit windows (yah I've seen that) then send the unit back. Be clear about why it won't work for you. The only way to convince these companies to behave is to show them lost sales.
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IMO it's a bit more nuanced than what the author portrays it as.
In the UK Amazon have now raised the price of general shipping to be 2/3 the price of a months prime subscription.
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I like to buy music.
Meet K-Claw.
Fable is way too expensive for basic software stuff.
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You have hit the nail on the head for why most "enterprise" gear is basically overpriced junk.
You have hit the nail on the head for why most "enterprise" gear is basically overpriced junk. That doesn't mean there isn't quality hardware out there, just that you have to be more selective. AKA do your own research and don't be dazed by the feature lists. Some of those features shouldn't actually be used. I personally tend to like the KISS arrays that don't have dedupe/replication/etc built in, and are web manageable. The extra bonus is that there are a metric boatload of tier 2 array vendors (imation's nexan for example) that provide rock solid hardware for a small fraction of the prices of EMC/etc. Its quite possible to get native capacity for less than a company like EMC charges for deduped capacity (aka 100TB from a tier two company can cost less than the 10TB deduped to 100TB from EMC). Raw RAID is pretty simple/understood in comparison to deduped solutions, and I think that has a significant affect on reliability. AKA more features, more latent bugs... Finally, get a bunch of demo units, and if the configuration UI is a mess of esoteric proprietary command line junk, or it is only configurable with a 32-bit java app that won't run on a 64-bit windows (yah I've seen that) then send the unit back. Be clear about why it won't work for you. The only way to convince these companies to behave is to show them lost sales.
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