Oh, in that case it makes sense to keep them.
The only reason I came up with SSD suggestion was because you considered using SAS drives for RAID0.
I assume you meant 1TB, though, you could get even that cheaper than $1K.
In any event, I agree it's still more expensive than SAS. No question...
If you can sell these drives and use the money to buy SSD you would get much better performance and lower power consumption. Of course if you need a LOT of fast storage it might get very expensive with SSDs, but you previously mentioned "35-60GB per wedding", so I assume that's more or less the...