NetApp?

Out of curiosity more than anything, what's up with NetApp devices? It seems to me that, for the cost of a Network Appliance system, I could build something that was an order of magnitude cheaper, and worked at least as well.

For instance, I'm looking at a 4TB NetApp for $113K. The cost of 4TB of disks (146GB SCSI at 15K RPM) from a 'normal' sources comes to around $7,000, so I'd budget $10K or so for a halfway-decent fileserver.

Why is the NetApp an order of magnitude more? I just wonder exactly how it's different, and who values those differences so much? (And apologies if I come across as critical of the NetApp: I'm curious, not critical.)

 

 

 

 

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