On Feb 16, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Neil Schneider wrote:
Of course, maybe by the time one fails, we go out and buy two for
replacements and raffle off the old working one.
The cost of the drives is minimal. I think this is probably a good
strategy.
Yeah I wouldn't worry about cold spares. The Seagate drives all
carry a 5 year warranty, so a replacement is just a few days of
shipping away. Given backups, it probably wouldn't be a big deal to
run degraded for the duration.
I think the original price was $800 and we bought it
from CCC. If we get good components, we don't really need a support
contract.
I still have the motherboard's box from the current Sparky sitting in
my office, complete with the manual and other assorted parts. :) It
was built on a desktop board.
The other thing we might want to consider is redundant power
supplies. I don't know how much it would add to the cost, but it might
save some down time, in the case of a failure. 1U power supplies
aren't something you walk into a local store and buy off the shelf.
Redundant power supplies would add quite a bit to the cost because
they'd require us jumping up to a higher-level chassis (and
subsequently motherboard) from Intel. The one I quoted doesn't
support RPS. However, Intel does offer a spare power supply SKU for
that chassis that appears to run around $175. That might be worth
having on hand. Intel does do ~24-hour turnaround on warranty
replacement parts, but if it decides to crap itself on Friday night,
then we're SoL until Monday at least.
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