[rescue] Why is SSA stuff not worth anything?

[Andrew Weiss]

On Jun 24, 2006, at 12:07 AM, Aaron Finley wrote:
> Is SSA just another example of IBM's extreme quirkiness that never
> really caught on? Or is there just no hobbyist market for these
> things? Interestingly, theres a healthy market for 43Ps and 44Ps,
> which still catch obscene prices. Why is nobody interested in the
> storage components to go along with them?
>
Some of us are broke and being smacked by SWMBO about purchases.   
That storage would go very nicely with my F50 server and later my B80  
when I get some RAM for it.

> I'm stumped here, but I'm sure some of you can easily explain it to
> me. If I wasn't so happy with $40/mo power bills, I think I'd hook all
> this stuff up and create some sort of storage network with one of
> those quad 16GB SP nodes which just popped up on here. Yum.
>
If I had a good bit of money I'd grab an SP rack too.

Andrew