[citation][nom]falchard[/nom]$14000 and I only get 12 TB of storage. I can do better with $1400.[/citation]
Well, it depends on the storage solution. Most of the people here are going to think 'hmm, i could do better with $50 SATA drives' but don't understand the price/performance difference with 15k rpm SAS drives + 512MB-1GB of write back cache, etc unless they work around such devices.
It makes me want to gouge my eyes out when I go to the storage section of the forums and see a post about 4 HDDs in RAID0, ten responses with nobody even mentioning RAID1+0 having similar performance and offering redundancy.