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- From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
- Subject: Re: Rate Structure (was Re: Newgroup issued for bc.rcbc)
- Organization: Wimsey Information Services
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:41:03 GMT
- Message-ID: <BzosKG.11q@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <BzL5vr.3q4@wimsey.bc.ca> <3N95VB1w165w@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca> <1992Dec21.194814.17149@mprgate.mpr.ca>
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- In article <1992Dec21.194814.17149@mprgate.mpr.ca> vanderby@mprgate.mpr.ca (David Vanderbyl) writes:
- >> > - $0.10 per megabyte per day
- >
- >This is only too high if you consider $3650 per year too high for
- >renting a 100 Meg drive.
-
- IDE drives (obviously not what they are running, but will show what 100mb
- drives are) <$300 wholesale in Vancouver (bought one last week).
-
- And higher up the hard disk drive price range, $3650 will buy you a *fast*
- 2GB SCSI drive and might leave you some change.
-
- Of course you still have to add in controllers, raid hardware and overhead,
- systems integration, systems operation, backup, maintenance, etc. And markup.
-
- Capital costs for a beast like this should be amortized over about three years.
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