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A New Look at Storage Pricing: Page 2 of 3

  • HP's EVA4400: $17 per pound. (Given starting price of $15,000 divided by full weight of 860 lbs.)
  • NetApp's StoreVault S550: $115 per pound. (Given starting price of $6,000 divided by full weight of 52 lbs.)
  • Xyratex's F5404E: $30 per pound. (Given a starting price of $5,000 divided by full weight of 165 lbs.)

What's that you say? It's not scientific? We're not comparing apples to apples? We're not even getting the right model numbers matched with the right weights?

Well, all great marketing math had a humble beginning, right? Sometimes it starts on a cocktail serviette. No worries. Someday we'll see an array hit $5 per pound.

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  • EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC)
  • Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ)
  • NetApp Inc. (Nasdaq: NTAP)
  • Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA)
  • Xyratex Ltd.