Originally Posted by Cyandin

Regardless, it's in poor taste.




I don't claim to be the most knowledgeable about anything so I'll just come right out and say that this still doesn't really make sense. Are you saying there are two physical sockets, each of which are actually octocores, such as the Beckton series L7555 or X7550? If so, your way of wording it is still very cryptic.




Again, trying to keep it humble here and not assume too much, but I believed the PV MD3200 series is actually a DAS unit, not a standalone server. So I emailed my Dell rep who wrote me back - verbatim:

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Das?..but two controllers on the unit that include ( raid, memory, battery,proc). 8 ports?.4 redundant. The md3200i is considered an entry level San ( Iscsi version?connect through a switch and not directly to servers)
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This was in response to me asking:

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Is this a DAS or a real server? Does it take CPU's and RAM?
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Again, I'm not assuming anything here, but my feedback from my Dell rep doesn't match up with your specs+model number, and I have deployed PowerVault units before and in my experience they again were usually DAS units using external SCSI back to a main server - usually a PowerEdge.

Furthermore, 1TB NLSAS drives are still every expensive.




So, 123mbps, burstable to 10gbps, with overages at $18/mbps? Did I read that right? You're paying for a 120mbps commit (which at a very very competitive price of $2/mbps is still $240 of the $400 you mentioned), but you need to be able to burst up to 81.3 times higher than that 123mbps? At the rate you mentioned, if you actually used even half of the 10gbps you can burst up to, you would be looking at an $87,000 bandwidth bill.

In conclusion, aside from my feelings that your comments in a thread where BP was merely citing his satisfaction with us, I do not see the economics of how such a server could be offered to you for such a price. Even if the bandwidth commit of 123mbps was only in at $1/mbps, you're still looking at eating $123/month out of your $400/month claim.

Furthermore, even if that was in place, you're claiming that the remaining $277/month is getting you a server that - from what I can tell - is a DAS unit (which is still a kickass machine, but it needs a real server to piggyback onto), and whose value would likely eclipse $20k. Even with the $4300 setup you mentioned, anyone can do the math on the ROI on such a deal. This does not even get into the value of the IP space.

So, as much as it is tempting to use more colorful expression once more as to your claim, I will just pass the ball back to you by saying that your statement does not add up to me, but please feel free to correct me if I am confused here.