On 8/29/2011 5:38 PM, unruh wrote: > On 2011-08-29, NPG <nat...@cmpublishers.com> wrote: >> On 8/27/2011 1:16 PM, unruh wrote: >>> On 2011-08-27, NPG <nat...@cmpublishers.com> wrote: > > First ask what your requirements are and then you can buy the equipment > to meet those. You do not want to find yourself in the position of the > car buyer who drives his car to the shopping mall every Fri, but goes > out and buys himself a Lotus. > LOL, I don't want to be in the position of continuous upgrades due to insufficient planning / forethought. However, I will concede a tendency toward massive overkill during planning.
I couple years ago I had to plan a project that would require 1TB of storage over its lifetime. The original plan was a $15,000 NetApp device. When implemented it was a < $800 HP wx8400 Workstation with dual 500G SAS drives. :-) > Meinberg also makes GPS receivers > which are probably very reliable and robost-- probably more so than the Sure > device. On the other hand you can buy something like 20 or more Sure > units for one Meinberg. > That,s why it is a long range plan. > Now if you are worried about keeping good time even in the face of a > nuclear war, than it is quite possible that the WWV transmitter will > remian on air longer than the GPS system will. > Thus your accuracy may be poorer but your reliability in such cases > higher. > I think I'd have bigger problems right then. :-) A Meinberg with GPS & WVV would be cool. Something to do if I had the resources, but if I did, there would be things more important to do. I'm very impressed with the quality of the answers received in this group. Thank you all, very much. -- Sincerely, Nathan Gibbs Systems Administrator Christ Media http://www.cmpublishers.com _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
