On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 22:54 +0200, Sandy Drobic wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2007-06-23 at 16:19 +0200, Sandy Drobic wrote:
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He immediately saw the light and signed the order for the server with hardware raid and hot-plug disks.
Lucky you :-p
Actually, I do consider myself lucky. (^-^)
It might be different for a server or workstation at home where cost is the most important factor.
Then there are many different situations. I have been in businesses where the cent is not trivial. Sometimes I have had to choose between getting my salary or getting some hardware instead, or getting a cheaper hardware as a compromise.
Often, when your boss or your client can't afford to pay for the most reasonable solution for such a lowlevel expense, this is an important sign to look for business or a job somewhere else.
My previous company went south financially, but I learned to do the very best with the resources I had available. Then I had to unlearn all of that when I joined my current company. They don't mind to spend some money as long as they get their worth out of the expense. It really took a long time for me to change my mindset.
If the business (like for example insurance) acquires lots of data continually then the cost of downtime due to a disc failure is huge compared with the extra dollars for RAID with Hotswap. With hardware RAID5, if the yellow light comes on a HDD, you simply remove the bad disk, plug in the replacement, and watch for the new disc's lights to settle while it syncs up. Eventually the light goes out and flashes green only when the system flushes its buffers. During all this time the users keep working productively -- it's simply wonderful! No question in my mind that it is a Good Thing. John O'Gorman
-- Sandy
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