price quoting - RE: network thruput

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Rich Holland wrote:

> michael at halligan.org wrote: 
> 
> > $150k? Ouch. For $20k nowadays you can get a 40 tape lto2 library
> > that has 200GB (uncompressed) tapes.. Another $5-$7k you can go
> > with the latest SDLT that's 300GB uncompressed (which I'm
> > looking at purchasing this week, hence the numbers in my head)
> 
> Where do you guys generally go to get ball-park quotes on tape units?  I'm
> trying to price out several backup options (buy a crateload more DLT-8000
> tapes for the 6-yr old library vs. buy a new lto library vs. backup to
> JBOD).

i'd use jbod ... if its my choice ... regardless of the size of data

	for live 24x7 backups for 5 minute downtime sorta thing
	to come back online AFTER some manual analysis of WHY the primary
	went down 

for quotes .. i call 2 or 3 distributor and ask how much,
where the "distributor" == "reseller permit required" to buy from them

otherwise
	- generic google/yahoo searches and click on the advertisers
	to get rough idea .. and web prices tend to be 10-20% below
	their real prices 

> I hate to go through the sales doids and all the dancing just to get
> ball-park quotes that my customer will likely re-quote through preferred
> vendors, etc....

if they are price shopping, i tell them go get their quotes, and i will
either match it or pass

usually, you will need a dell and hp quote too if you wanna deal
with the purchasing dept droids that will be cutting the PO,
which they can do themself to get those quotes from their fav var/vad
they been buying from for the last 10-20 years

> Is there anyone on the web advertising pricing (even list price) that I can
> scrape together something high-level with?

google ads are good price variation list from vendor to vendor

c ya
alvin