Another key takeaway from Jon Toigo’s observations in DrunkenData: storage system vendors risk losing their captive position with businesses when they don’t pass on disk drive price reductions.
At the Intel Channel Conference in Toronto in October I spoke with one medium-sized systems builder who buys storage systems from a leading multinational, but fills them himself with off-the-shelf hard drives. He’s willing to pass up the warranty coverage and risk the goodwill with his supplier because the cost differential is so big.
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