Originally Posted by rayijin
I saw a deal for a 1TB drive for $150 yesterday so we'll say that's the price each.
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Large enterprises do not shop for storage at Best Buy, nor do they cobble together fragile storage solutions from consumer parts. Your armchair guesses of how to provision for a system as large as WoW are very wrong.
The cost of redundant, available, manageable, and fast storage is much higher. Heck, the fibre channel card alone for some server hardware can run $2k. SAN tech is not cheap.