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- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: Query: Solid State SCSI Systems
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 03:59:09 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.035909.1127@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <1992Nov10.021022.14711@news.arc.nasa.gov> <1992Nov16.161020.11319@ksmith.uucp> <1992Dec1.151630.12076@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Dec1.151630.12076@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> cassidy@memory.enet.dec.com writes:
- >|>So what is the average COST/MB on these guys, and where does it
- >|>start?
- >Evaluation units are $13,500 for the ESP510 (107 MB with integrated data
- >retention = $126/MB) and $20,000 for the ESP530 (267 MB with no data retention
- >= $75/MB). Evaluation units will be available in Q1CY93.
-
- [ Dist discounts up to 1/2 possible ... ]
-
- Hmm, With a screamer Mag disk running around $2-3 a meg and this guy
- maybe around $50-100 your application is gonna really have to demand Ultra
- High speed disk memory to use it... Of course with the way memory
- prices go pricing could drop, Also with cheap CPU's capable of addressing
- Gigs now, and Terabytes in the near future, I'm not sure of the
- viability of this technology, Would seem more prudent to stuff the RAM
- on the BUS (or BUSes) directly. I dunno.
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