On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Peter Jeremy < peter.jer...@alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
> > OTOH, if I'm paying 10x the street drive price upfront, plus roughly > the street price annually in "support", I can save a fair amount of > money by just buying a pile of spare drives - when one fails, just > swap it for a spare and it doesn't matter if it takes weeks for the > vendor to swap it. > > I can tell you with the Enterprise storage vendor I deal with, the maintenance over five years (expected lifetime of the system) is equal or more than initial, discounted purchase price! -marc
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