Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
A 3-5yr warrantee is useful to some people (it's expensive to pull
disks), but for personal use I find my 5yr old disks to small to be
useful. With the capacity of disks growing faster than Moore's law for
the last 10yrs, you don't want to buy excess capacity now that will
depreciate faster than Moore's law.
At home, time isn't charged, but if you're in business where a
sysadmin costs the business about $50/hr. then disks are really cheap.
As Mark Merkel (? I think) said at OLS_2004, If your disks are
becoming full and you're practicing relatively good disk hygiene, it's
cheaper to add another disk than to pay the sysadmin $50/hr to delete
files.
This is true and a good point, but in any large environment any disk
space added means, more data to backup, manage, and to scan for virii.
All of these can make the cost of the disks only a line-item in the
analysis.
-David
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