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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Liberator on April 06, 2005, 10:17:04 pm

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Liberator on April 06, 2005, 10:17:04 pm

A customer at work showed me this and I think it's funny as hell.

http://h71016.www7.hp.com/dstore/MiddleFrame.asp?page=config&ProductLineId=431&FamilyId=2060&BaseId=13528&oi=E9CED&BEID=19701&SBLID=

Okay, go down to the "Cables" box and look at the price they want for one SATA cable.

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Blitzerland on April 06, 2005, 10:13:52 pm

:lol:

Edit: Timewarp! Is it just me, or does this happen to me every other post?! StratCom was right!

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Grey Wolf on April 06, 2005, 10:16:58 pm

Blitzerland, switch to dynamic4 from whatever server you're on so you can stop this. Actually, perhaps the problem is in fact Liberator, given the fact this post somehow managed to get before Liberator's as well.

As for the original topic, I was hoping that HP would become smarter after ditching their CEO. Seems my hopes were dashed yet again.

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Taristin on April 06, 2005, 10:25:25 pm

Lordy...

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Liberator on April 07, 2005, 01:23:34 am

GW, I always post to dynamic4.

Title: Re: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: kode on April 07, 2005, 02:23:00 am

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Originally posted by Liberator
Okay, go down to the "Cables" box and look at the price they want for one SATA cable.

effin 'ell!

I suppose the cables are made of solid gold?

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: StratComm on April 07, 2005, 02:43:25 am

That doesn't seem too out of line to me.  After all, a SATA cable is a direct bus between your disks and main memory and so will handle a ton of workload on a fileserver.  High bandwidth, high speed, and very tightly packed I'd imagine.  When you realize that your average monitor cable goes for upwards of $20, well, those parts aren't cheap.

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: kode on April 07, 2005, 03:22:32 am

it is a little out of the line. you can get a meter of it for ~$6 here in sweden, and that's including VAT.

this isn't the hifi world, where there's cables that cost upwards $10k a meter. basically, a s-ata cable is a s-ata cable.

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Clave on April 07, 2005, 07:04:51 am

Yep, and it's basically a SERIAL cable which is not exactly a lots of cores or very high quality.  The simple rule is: the newer the technology, the greater the rip-off - check the price of parallel cables for example...

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Carl on April 07, 2005, 07:09:41 am

I wonder if it's cheaper to make my own.

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Annorax on April 07, 2005, 12:59:56 pm

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Originally posted by Liberator
GW, I always post to dynamic4.

Strange, I've been posting to dynamic3.

Edit: HOLY **** $200????

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: aldo_14 on April 07, 2005, 01:02:56 pm

Aaaaaaaah....... HP.

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Grey Wolf on April 07, 2005, 06:26:45 pm

Really? Seems the time warping isn't caused by different servers then, as I was also on dynamic4. Very interesting...

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Liberator on April 07, 2005, 08:14:32 pm

Clave, that cable retails where I work for $10-$15 US.

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Grey Wolf on April 07, 2005, 08:23:09 pm

And Liberator's number should be the maximum you pay for a SATA cable.

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Taristin on April 07, 2005, 08:32:24 pm

It probably includes a SATA HD, but they didn't write that. :p

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Liberator on April 07, 2005, 08:37:08 pm

No the drive is separate.

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Taristin on April 07, 2005, 08:37:23 pm

Then, HP = wackt

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Bobboau on April 07, 2005, 08:57:03 pm

maybe it's a typo, maybe it's suposed to be $20

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: StratComm on April 07, 2005, 08:59:51 pm

I was actually under the assumption that the kit comes with more than just the cable.  On further investigation though, it still is way too expensive.  Unless it comes with a controller, of course.

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Liberator on April 07, 2005, 09:33:50 pm

Even then it should only be about $70-$100 at the most.

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: redsniper on April 07, 2005, 10:10:09 pm

I have an 80GB Sata HD that came with a cable, of course, for at most $100.

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Liberator on April 07, 2005, 10:21:41 pm

I meant the controller.  Of course the drive would be more.

Title: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Post by: Clave on April 08, 2005, 01:15:43 am

I do like SATA - you just plug it in and it works, and that's a rare thing...