Re: Opinions on dropping maintance on SSD drives after the 3 year warranty expires

Hi Paul

so the maintenance is 15,000; against that number, what is the actual cost
of a replacement ?

Personally, I wouldn't do/recommend this.

In my experience, businesses that do this to save money then have a hell of
a time approving the cost of a replacement when the inevitable happens. If
you are going to go down this road you probably want to get something
accrued into a GL account so that the money is available and approval isn't
a night mare.

If maintenance is really one of those things people hate paying I would
look to replace the hardware to get the maintenance to 0 and go back to a
warranty situation.



On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Our 3 year warranty on our 13 SSD drives will expire Feb 2018.
The 24x7 maintenance will be around $15,000 annually, just for the 13 SSD.

ES0P 775GB SFF-3 SSD for IBM i 13 80600
1092 P

I have 2 Raid-5 sets, one with 6, one with 5, and two hot spares.

I've never had an SSD fail in 6 years.
The first set of SSD we swapped 3 years ago for larger SSD when they were
coming off warranty and we needed more space.

We're contemplating not putting the 13 ESOP on maintenance.
If one would fail, I'm protected with Raid-5 with a hot spare.
Simply buy another unit if and when a failure would occur.

Any thoughts, Pros/Cons from the group.

Thank You
_____
Paul Steinmetz
IBM i Systems Administrator

Pencor Services, Inc.
462 Delaware Ave
Palmerton Pa 18071

610-826-9117 work
610-826-9188 fax
610-349-0913 cell
610-377-6012 home

psteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.pencor.com/


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