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Offline Liberator

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Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
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.
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Offline Blitzerland

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Reply #1 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!
 

Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #2 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.
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Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Reply #3 on: April 06, 2005, 10:25:25 pm
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Offline Liberator

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Reply #4 on: April 07, 2005, 01:23:34 am
GW, I always post to dynamic4.
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Offline kode

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Re: Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Reply #5 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?
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Offline StratComm

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Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Reply #6 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.
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Offline kode

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Reply #7 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.
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Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Reply #8 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...
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Offline Carl

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Dem's be some expensive cablage, yuh?
Reply #9 on: April 07, 2005, 07:09:41 am
I wonder if it's cheaper to make my own.
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Offline Annorax

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Reply #10 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????
 

Offline aldo_14

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Reply #11 on: April 07, 2005, 01:02:56 pm
Aaaaaaaah....... HP.
 

Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #12 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...
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Offline Liberator

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Reply #13 on: April 07, 2005, 08:14:32 pm
Clave, that cable retails where I work for $10-$15 US.
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Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #14 on: April 07, 2005, 08:23:09 pm
And Liberator's number should be the maximum you pay for a SATA cable.
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Offline Taristin

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Reply #15 on: April 07, 2005, 08:32:24 pm
It probably includes a SATA HD, but they didn't write that. :p
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Offline Liberator

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Reply #16 on: April 07, 2005, 08:37:08 pm
No the drive is separate.
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

There are only 10 types of people in the world , those that understand binary and those that don't.
 

Offline Taristin

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Reply #17 on: April 07, 2005, 08:37:23 pm
Then, HP = wackt
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Offline Bobboau

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Reply #18 on: April 07, 2005, 08:57:03 pm
maybe it's a typo, maybe it's suposed to be $20
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Reply #19 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.
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