Yet another “Cash for Clunkers” program

Following in the footsteps of Xiotech and Pillar Data, Overland Storage is the latest company to offer cash for old storage systems. The name for their program is “Cash For Junkers”, and they are offering up to $7000 in discounts when trading in old storage systems for Overland’s NEO E-Series tape libraries or up to $500 when purchasing Snap Server rack-mountable NAS models. [...]

Pillar Data: Imitation is the sincerest of flattery

Just two weeks after Xiotech announced their “Cash for Disk Clunkers” program offering up to $1000 discounts for every terabyte of “old” storage turned in, Pillar Data Systems figured that this might turn out to be a good idea. By announcing their new program with the headline “Pillar Extends Life of Cash for Clunkers for Storage Industry” they even created some confusion about whether they weren’t extending a program that was announced before Xiotechs. Pillar doesn’t offer information about just how much of a discount you’ll get when trading in your old equipment: Continue reading Pillar Data: Imitation is the sincerest of flattery

Xiotech offering trade-in program for old harddisks

We’ve all been waiting for weeks for the exciting new product Xiotech was going to announce; it turns out there isn’t one (so far). What they did announce today is a “cash for disk clunkers” program, that will give you a discount of up to $1.000 per terabyte of disk space bought from them. Continue reading Xiotech offering trade-in program for old harddisks