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Given your "1-12tb" range doesn't list prices online, can you tell us whether your prices are comparable? At $1249/month for 2x 200GB SSD, it seems unlikely, but maybe I'm wrong?

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Typically clients requiring that much SSD-backed storage have performance targets and a very specific workload, so this affects options along with pricing. With that said, ballpark for what Amazon is advertising is comparable to our pricing, except with us you are _guaranteed_ the resources whereas they are using a multi-tenant environment (you're not using the only instance on their host and your I/O is influenced by everyone else using that host).

EDIT: Downvoted? Please offer your point of view.

EDIT2: Sample pricing offered in comment below.

I haven't downvoted (and in fact couldn't if I wanted to since you replied to me), but personally my issue with your comment is that you're being as vague as your website's prices. Would be more interesting and relevant if you actually gave a price for a box comparable to the AWS specs.

I apologize, here's a sample pricing configuration:

8 x 3.4GHz E3-1270

11x 200GB SLC SATA III SSD (2TB @ RAID 5)

32GB DDR3 ECC RAM

6000GB Outbound BW

2 x 1 GigE Public/Private Interfaces

$2369 Monthly

That's just month-to-month, if a longer term were purchased we could give a discount depending on the term.

This assumes Amazon is using SLC and not MLC drives, which are considerably cheaper. Also, the quote above is from SoftLayer I believe, which is not the cheapest provider for high end hardware.

These particular instances are not multi-tenant at this time.

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