RE: Withdrawal of Spinning Drives

The maintenance was supposed to be comprehensive for adding the drives to our existing enclosure.

Our BP quoted two options. The first was the 4 SSD units, and the second was 12 HDD units. The SSDs had a lower purchase price but a higher TCO. We opted for the SSDs.



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From: Rob Berendt [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx]
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Was that for the drives themselves, or did that also include some of the other expenses Larry talked about below?
Basically you were replacing all the drives every 3 years with that deal. Or at least paying like you were.
There comes a point when you have to decide whether or not maintenance on a drive is worth it, or if you want to self maintain them.
It's not that hard to CAREFULLY read the instructions as to how to do this. And to follow the check list EACH AND EVERY TIME.
Or you can stock a spare or two and just pay time for someone else to do it for you.


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A month or so ago, we installed four 1.92TB 2.5 FLASH DRIVE units into our V5000. The quoted annual maintenance cost was about 30% of the drive cost.