On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Alan Hodgson <ahodg...@simkin.ca> wrote: > On Thursday, September 27, 2012 02:13:01 PM David Boreham wrote: >> The equivalent Supermicro box looks to be somewhat less expensive : >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101693 >> >> When you consider downtime and the cost to ship equipment back to the >> supplier, a warranty doesn't have much value to me but it may be useful >> in your situation. > > And you can probably buy 2 Supermicros for the cost of the Dell. 100% spares.
This 100x this. We used to buy our boxes from aberdeeninc.com and got a 5 year replacement parts warranty included. We spent ~$10k on a server that was right around $18k from dell for the same numbers and a 3 year warranty. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
