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How frequent are the failures? It costs a lot less than $20 to repair a broken power supply, but if you break less than $5000 worth of power supplies per month
by tinco 4y ago
How frequent are the failures? It costs a lot less than $20 to repair a broken power supply, but if you break less than $5000 worth of power supplies per month you're not breaking even on the technician not even counting the management overhead.
I don't think small cost savings like that are going to be implemented simply because it makes the operation more complex without landing any manager a big fat bonus.
Unless I'm grossly underestimating the failure rate of those supplies?
- nwiswell 4y agoI think you're underestimating the scale of the modern data center.
- tinco 4y agoSo you're saying in your DC enough of them break that they could feed a technician? Say the technician would have an 80% success rate and he saves $100 bucks per repair, there would need to be 63 failures per month for there to be 0 cost savings. What's the minimum cost savings for it to be worth a managers time? Maybe double it again so 125 failures per month? I wonder if the vendor would void the warranty and that would have any consequences. Does you DC get around 125 failures per month?