Re: Advice please: Upgrade mail server or service contract?

Agreed...and if you can make it PayPal, that would be helpful.

On 12/1/05 02:39 PM, "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 1) Get a new system.
> 2) Put at least 1 Gig in it
> 3) Give us a link to donate to the cause
> 
> -Walden
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of David Gibbs
> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 2:12 PM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: [PCTECH] Advice please: Upgrade mail server or service
> contract?
> 
> Folks:
> 
> My main mail & list server (rivendell) system is getting near the end of
> it's current maintenance contract.
> 
> I have to decide if I want to extend the service contract or get a new
> system.
> 
> I'm thinking a new service contract will probably be $300 or so.  A new
> system would be around $800.
> 
> The system is kind of old ... and VERY loud.  It's also a bit on the
> flaky side (nothing I can pin down though).  It's a Dell PowerEdge 600SC
> with 2.4ghz P4, 160gb of mirrored IDE DASD, 640mb of ram, and a SCSI
> tape drive.
> 
> A new system would probably be something like a Dell PowerEdge SC430,
> 2.8ghz P4 (ht), 160gb of mirrored SATA DASD, 768mb of ram, and the same
> SCSI tape drive.
> 
> So the question is: Should I extend the service contract or get a new
> system?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> david
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