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Re:The Full Stack, Part I by aristus on Thursday December 02, 2010 @07:28PM (#1964296)
The drive themselves might be an extra 10 or 20% of the cost of the machine. They come with other factors as well. 5x the disks means more power draw and cooling. It probably also means you need a 2U chassis instead of pizza-box 1U, which means your datacenter rent doubles. (It may be possible to fit 10TB into a 1U. I've never tried it, but I suspect you'll have space / power / heat problems.)

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