Cheap ATA disks/backup target is the Apple market. No law says you can't attach their hba to your san. The server is a screamer which the focus. Bleeding on the first Oracle release for OS X doesn't sound like my idea of fun, but the more players the better. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:59:19AM -0800, Steve Rospo wrote: > > I'm *ONLY* interested if there's actual numbers, price and performance > along with a comparison to more "traditional" Oracle platforms. From the > look of the prices below the real price break comes in on the disk storage > not the nodes, but at what performance cost? I can imagine it's pretty > fast at low concurrency but I want to see what happens when there's a lot > of concurrency. We're talking RAC here so it's not a big stretch to > demand large amounts of concurrency. > > Now that much cheap space would be very nice for disk backups.... > > S- > > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Niall Litchfield wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:12:35 -0800 (PST), Steve Rospo > > <srospo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > At the last PSOUG meeting Daniel was very excited about Oracle RAC on Mac. > > > I can't remember the numbers but I seem to remember a two node + 2TB > > > shared storage for some ridiculously low amount. (I want to say < $100K > > > but I might be wrong.) According to Daniel it was absolutely *smoking*. > > > I'm attending next week, so I can report back if anyone is interested. > > > > I'd be interested, especially if actual numbers are shown - I assuming > > 'smoking' is a good thing in a server, rather than something to be > > concerned about.... > > > > As far as price goes, the storage is $13,000 dollars for 5.6tb of > > disks, a dual proc xserve g5 is $4000 so I imagine the price tag is > > under $30,000 for the hardware (and some large figure for the > > software) > > > > Daniel did remark on the speed of the storage on c.d.o.s, which given > > that the storage is either 7 or 14 ATA devices I find a little > > unlikely. > > > > > > -- > Stephen Rospo Principal Software Architect > Vallent Corporation (formerly Watchmark-Comnitel) > Stephen.Rospo@xxxxxxxxxxx (425)564-8145 > > This email may contain confidential information. If you received this in > error, please notify the sender immediately by return email and delete this > message and any attachments. Thank you. > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- ============================================================ Ray Stell stellr@xxxxxx (540) 231-4109 Tempus fugit 28^D -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l