Storage blades seem like a waste to me. You're paying a good price for the enclosure in order to save money on power consumption, and then you put in something that is pure power consumption? It seems like an external JBOD attached to the blade enclosure's IO ports makes more sense. Maybe there's some feature to the storage blades I'm not aware of.

I really wish that blade solutions weren't so expensive. They would make perfect sense for our environment, but I can't justify the extra expense. I need to do some power consumption calculations, but I don't think it's going to help. We are running short on power, so maybe, though.