I understand available discounts will vary greatly on some hardware, but their is much common equipment which should be consistent.

The usefulness of a web resource might be expressed as Value*FrequencyOfusage; so Google is useful despite the often low value of a search result because we use it a lot. This list is very useful because of its high and rare information value although it might not be on our list of daily visited pages.

Thanks again, and all the best.

Good suggestion. I put it on the bottom of my to do list since the Apple store publishes all the prices, but if I want to provide one stop pricing comparisons I should do it.

However, don’t think I am all that impressed with Apple’s storage strategy. Their incorporation of ZFS, yes. Their reliance on FC, not so much. Yet I do think they are doing a lot of things right, mostly because Steve won’t let the storage group spend money. How that works is the subject of future post.

Robin

RTFM: “These prices are discounted “street prices”, roughly what a corporate customer would pay.”

F.D.: I don’t see that happening. Full pricing information would contain a lot of valuable competitive information, such as discount levels and contract Terms and Conditions that businesses like to keep close to the vest. For datacenter storage price simply isn’t that high on the list of customer issues. I think it will be when it becomes evident that a lot of data is rarely (i.e. a few dozen times per hour) accessed and that storage can be a tenth the price.

Robin