From: <Chris.Phillips_at_email.protected>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:00:22 +1000

Jim,

Thats within ball part of what I would expect.

I would not consider trying to upgrade a module. I think you are
likely to get an expensive brick.

Think about what you need the storage for. If it is not needed to
transport around for VLBI, you may be better getting either some
external "fixed" storage or a case with lots of spots for disks and
buying a 3ware or similar hardware raid card. You can buy rack mount
cases with space for heaps (>20) disks. An 8 disk hardware raid
controller is ~$600.

Cheers
Chris

On 22/08/2007, at 12:44 PM, Jim Lovell wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>I'm putting together a little funding proposal here at UTas and a
>component of that is some new disks for our Xraid at Mt Pleasant.
>Apple are quoting me $6200 for a bank of 7 500 GB Ultra ATA disks
>which seems a tad on the steep side. I was speaking with a bloke
>from Apple who deals with UTas so this was apparently the best
>'deal' he could manage. I was wondering if anyone has managed to
>get a better deal from Apple or could suggest alternatives? I guess
>one option would be to buy some disks from a third party and muck
>about swapping the Apple proprietary mounting bracket things - but
>that's a bit messy.
>
>Comments and suggestions welcome!
>
>Cheers,
>Jim
>
>--
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>School of Mathematics & Physics
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>
>
Received on 2007-08-23 08:01:35