Absofragginlutely nuts. So, tax prep services. Full accounting practice? Provide bookkeeping and accounting services? What happens when operations stop due to a failure? How much are they billing out daily? During the tax season daily? What's the cost of downtime at their busiest point? One would surmise that the cost of downtime would exceed the cost of a new server, easily.
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Bill Humphries <nt...@hedgedigger.com>wrote: > Heh. This thing is way out of warranty. The SATA drives are atleast 4 > years old...so that adds tp my concern regarding array status. They want to > make it through this next tax season with this server. > > > VIPCS wrote: > >> Can you call HP Support and ask them the question? >> >> Sincerely, >> Jeffrey and Mary Jane Harris >> VIPCS >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Wednesday, >> December 15, 2010 3:20 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: LSI SATA RAID issue >> >> SO I have a client with HP ML310 with SATA drives running SBS 2003. The >> machine >> has been slow and disks show severe fragmentation. They had a power issue >> yesterday and when I was onsite and booted the machine I noticed that the >> pre-windows load screen mentioned that the LSI array was failed or >> degraded. >> It booted into windows before I had time to hit the function key and I >> couldn't >> take it down any longer during business hours. Itmight have just been >> degraded due to power failure...or maybe something else. >> >> I can't seem to find any way to see RAID status on this server while in >> windows. I don't think the standard HP array manager software supports the >> LSI >> onboard controller. Mt google-fu is failing. any way to see status of the >> array without taking the machine down? Thanks for any input. >> >> Bill >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> >> > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
