Re: does anyone have list price of 1.2 gig drive handy?

[plexxus@inforamp.net (John Allman)]

>On Jun 21,  2:02pm, Robert Dewar wrote:
>} In the case of disks,
>} providing a multi-year guarantee is in itself very expensive, and markups
>} of this type are pretty much standard. 
>}-- End of excerpt from Robert Dewar
>
>I know squat about disk pricing, so this discussion is interesting to me,
>but I think the above point is frequently overlooked (judging by how often
>I overlook it myself).  The level and length of support that IBM provides
>is one reason why many of us have bought this "overpriced" hardware in the
>first place.  Does anyone have an educated ballpark figure regarding the
>mean per pad cost for support over three years?
>
>Eugene Fiume.
>
>
I just investigated this on a customers behalf, the cost of onsite IBM
warranty for a tp360cse was about 10% of list price.

John
John Allman
Plexxus Technologies Inc.
Markham (Toronto), Ontario