At this size/scale I wonder what the actual price would be for a comparable Supermicro system. If I had to make a wild guess, well under half the 200k previously quoted.

The NVME drives are what's making it so expensive. Dell retail is $6044 for each of the Intel P4610 6.4TB drives. That's $145k.

after 15 seconds of googling, the P4610 U.2 format 6.4TB seems something more like a single unit street price of $2400 from non-Dell vendors. I'm mildly surprised it's that low considering that the U.2 format stuff, for serious servers, will always command a premium price.

Probably in the range of $2100 to $2200 per unit from a x86-64 component distributor in moderate quantities.

Just noticed this in the Dell cart...

"42% off list price: use code SERVER42"

Doesn't make the price reasonable exactly, but it's kind of funny.

You should try server43

server100 for the win

server1000 and we can retire early

it seems like server-1000 is actually what one might be looking for

It looks like performance-wise I can compare it to a couple of 970 EVOs stuck together, and those are $160/TB retail. So from that point of view you're paying more than double.