Re: Development box is back online

Pete,

Your record is amazing! Now before a lot of people read that and decide to cancel maintenance do consider how important the machine is to your business. This stuff IS reliable but it does still fail. I HAVE seen processor failures, memory failures, controller failures, DASD Back-plane failures, and the usual DASD, Tape Drive, Tape, etc failures too. I've see it caused by fire, flood, lightning, fork-lift and almost by a roll of conveyor belt (That one got hung up just before it landed on the system!)

All I'm saying is eventuality everyone's luck runs out and if you fail at 5:01 on Friday with no contract, "Next Business Day" is Tuesday! Think about that......

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com

On 5/9/2013 3:01 PM, Pete Helgren wrote:

I haven't had a development box with hardware
support...well....forever. I have never had anything but a hard drive
fail or a raid controller battery expire. In 20 years of ownership from
AS/400 to the Bladecenter I have now, I have never had anything else
fail. Come to think of it, I have never had anything but a drive
failure or a battery expire on a customer machine for all those years
either.

With the good Dr. Franken and others on this list, plus eBay or Amazon,
I can pretty much expect I can get up and running in 24 hours or less if
something fails.....(never been down for more than an hour on HW failure
anyway).

Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java

On 5/9/2013 1:39 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

What machine was it? it feels like a 520...

Yes, exactly!

You can buy a coupe of machines for the quoted price off ebay...

It must have been Global Services quoting the price. Incredible labor costs. They can probably get away with it because when a server goes down, a business can go down with it.

If you buy off eBay, can you keep up on S/W maintenance? Our 520 is on 7.1, and we plan on keeping it current.

-Nathan