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Uh, no hardware failure costs? Both the time and money to handle such. Hardware fails, which costs time and money to fix. To not account for failure within a ye
by nowarninglabel 15y ago
Uh, no hardware failure costs? Both the time and money to handle such. Hardware fails, which costs time and money to fix. To not account for failure within a year is either delusional or using some extremely high-quality hardware which is going to cost a lot more than the linked to Dell server.
- druiid 15y agoThere's uhh.. a thing called a warranty which generally is sold with every-single-device-sold-ever that is enterprise grade. This is also where they make their money. If a hard-drive dies you call Dell and they ship you a new one. If a hard drive in a $40k+ Netapp dies, you call Netapp and they tell you their rep is waiting for you at the data-center and to hurry up. If your Cisco switch dies you call Cisco and they ship you a.... you get the idea.
- netpenthe 15y agoas someone said above, if your Dell hard drive fails, they respond to you in 4 hours, then they ask you to run a series of tests blah blah blah, then you might get replacement that day or in a few days.. this is likely to cost at least 4 hours of a sys admin's time, maybe closer to 10?
- nowarninglabel 15y agoSo meanwhile your sysadmin has gone over to the co-lo to swap parts, and as mentioned elsewhere dealt with CS, shipping, and such. Real-world problems. The cost is not $0.