I wish Santa Existed......

[Reloadron]

Remember waiting patiently for conventional HDDs to drop below a buck a gig? Lets see:

$3,219.99 / 128 = $25.15 per gig.

Thinking I will pass for awhile. Besides just how fast can it be running off a SATA port?

Ron

[Carl Martin]

Manufacturer's site says a three year warranty. Assuming it fails at the end of that period, that comes to only $1073.33/year. Think I'll take four of them in RAID 3 or 5.

Carl

[OcciferFriendly]

Originally Posted by Reloadron

Remember waiting patiently for conventional HDDs to drop below a buck a gig? Lets see:

$3,219.99 / 128 = $25.15 per gig.

Thinking I will pass for awhile. Besides just how fast can it be running off a SATA port?

Ron

This is my view as well. What I find hillarious is that Raptor's are often maligned for their small size, even though they are fast as hell.

But these things are drooled over, and their cost for gig is simply horrible.

[JazzyJake]

one other thing you have to take into consideration is the money invested in getting this product to work right, and considering the high cost to subsidize that, it has to be sold for more just to pay off those bills at a reasonable rate, which means less sales.....like everyone has said, wait for those who absolutely need the highest-end machine for e-penis value, let them pay for development so us normal users/regular enthusiasts can enjoy it for a respectable cost.

[Zambini]

Originally Posted by JazzyJake

one other thing you have to take into consideration is the money invested in getting this product to work right, and considering the high cost to subsidize that, it has to be sold for more just to pay off those bills at a reasonable rate, which means less sales.....like everyone has said, wait for those who absolutely need the highest-end machine for e-penis value, let them pay for development so us normal users/regular enthusiasts can enjoy it for a respectable cost.

or someone who absolutely has to have it in <2ms

I'm sure someone in the government who don't know jack shit about computers thinks the most expensive is the best, and just goes to newegg.com and sorts by price (highest to lowest) and buys stuff like that.

[BrokenHalo83]

thats how they do it where i work

[Zambini]

you should take over that part and pocket the difference

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Capper

Understatement of the century?

I'd be willing to bet none of these guys have even seen one of these drives

I swear to god I saw one.

Oh... gigabytes. My bad. :P

Edit: Oh and you know, if I was able to get a 1GB one for $25, I'd frankly invest in 10 of them and a nice controller card. I don't mind having a 10GB if Windows Vista runs. :P
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