Reply to post: 20% of the cost of the Primera?

HPE unveils Primera storage tech, vows 100% availability – anyone fancy breaking, er, putting that to the test?

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20% of the cost of the Primera?

Given that high end storage is marked up something over 500% that's not exactly a bold promise. Maybe it isn't quite that bad anymore, but I've been involved with GSA schedule purchases of Symmetrix arrays at 75% off list!

There's no practical difference between 5 9s and infinite 9s. Somewhere between 3 and 4 9s human error becomes the dominant factor for outages, and even if the hardware is 100% bulletproof you can't stop stupid.

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