How many out there - continue to use hardware that's out of warranty?

My Exchange server (pe 2600) is no longer covered by dell- its I think about
7 years old- 

And my NAS device as well-

My exchange is all mirrored so  in that sense I'm a bit comfortable , however
raid controller is another issue if that went out I guess I would have to
scramble -
I hate to retire the hardware as it has been good to me-  and based on perfom
counters it does the job- and quite well I might add-

dual 933 
1 gig ram
6 scsi drives 

My NAS also is redundant in that it's a raid5 and it uses ide drives , I
actually upgraded the disks from the 4 40 gig to 4 80 gig drives- but again
the box is out of warranty and dell will not renew based on EOL


As many of you know I'm at a non-profit so its not easy to just pick up the
phone a order new  5k dollar NAS or 8k server-

Does anyone have any thoughts/comments etc..  









Jean-Paul 


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