[SLL] Rant: ATA-over-Ethernet 0x88a2

[Chuck Wolber]

On Thu, 5 May 2005, Andrew Sweger wrote:

%< SNIP %<

> Are there any hardware experts in the audience that have connections 
> with production fabrication facilities? Want to start a new business? 
> Like I said, I've got aoe loaded in the kernel. I'm still waiting for 
> the hardware.

Yes, I agree that $295 is a price that says to the customer "We really 
aren't interested in selling these.". It's priced such that one could 
purchase a chassis for the hard drives and throw in a cheap cpu and 
motherboard to do the same thing.

Thus then the question arises, what *WOULD* you pay for one of these 
things? For me, $50 sounds a bit high, but a reasonable price nontheless.

..Chuck..


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