Re: SSD's

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Move to SAN. The writing is all over the wall. Including with the new 
5010E at least some of the drives (I haven't looked at all of 'em) show 
*ZERO maintenance on the SSDs.

On a recent (this week) quote the AMC for SSDs on a V5010 was $7,900 and 
for the V5010E $0 and that was for 5 years of maintenance on the SAN. In 
this case the SSDs were the 800G size.

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On 8/8/2019 7:57 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:
> I got another newsletter this week from a company specializing in upgrades and new systems.  It had the usual article spouting how SSD's and/or flash is the here and now and HDD's are a thing of the past.  All well and good.  However not mentioning that the cost of maintenance of SSD's is astronomical after they go out of warranty is disrespectful of customers who do not replace their systems every 3 years.  While HDD's are often included in the system maintenance SSD's are not.
> Do these companies have a vested interest in ensuring that customers upgrade every 3 years?  By not mentioning this maintenance it makes them look like they are trying to sneak one past you.
> I wonder what a comparison of a 5 or 7 year cost of ownership of a P9 loaded with HDDs vs the same loaded with SSD's would look like?
>
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