The system will have a starting list price of $3,000 for a system with three 36-GByte Seagate Technology Inc. (NYSE: STX) Ultra320 SCSI drives, which works out to about 2.8 cents per MByte.
"We are getting good margins with this product, even though it's priced below Dell and IBM," says Diefenthaler. "We get better margins on this than on our servers, so it's an attractive business for us."
Gateway's 2U-high JBOD system, configured with LSI Logic Corp. (NYSE: LSI) SCSI controllers, can hold up to 1.7 TBytes of storage. Customers can optionally use LSI's RAID controller with the system "to achieve even greater data protection," according to Gateway [ed. note: for those who want to dabble on the bleeding edge!].
The company will also roll out an Linear Tape Open (LTO) tape autoloader, which holds eight cartrdiges. The Gateway-branded autoloader, priced starting at $5,800, was developed by Certance LLC, Seagate's tape drive affiliate. Gateway will also resell Veritas Software Corp. (Nasdaq: VRTS) Backup Exec 9.0 and Yosemite Technologies Inc. Tapeware XE 7.0 backup applications.
Gateway plans to officially announce the products next week, on Aug. 26.
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