[Dylan16807]

That comparison doesn't make any sense at all, and you can't excuse it by tossing out "Of course, you also get a lot more". This is like evaluating the price of wheels by buying entire cars. You wouldn't get dozens of these servers just for capacity, you'd get a custom quote.

That said at $24K you could pay off an entire server like that from Dell in 4 months despite Dell charging something stupid like $2000/TB.

[freakynit]

Lets hear your numbers then.

[Dylan16807]

Your numbers are basically fine for what you're measuring, if you round up to factor in actually having servers to put the storage drives into. So 40-50k instead of 36k.

The issue is your budget is for 400TB of data but minimal requests per second. That's a valid thing to consider, but it's extremely apples and oranges to a fleet of 75 high powered servers.

To put it a different way, their prices are pretty high but the calculation of powerful servers costing 40x as much as raw storage isn't "insane".