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<font size="2">Can you replace the bit thats broke? Even if it's the motherboard (me, not really having a clue about anything more impressive than replacing the RAM or adding a graphics card here!) If you can't fix, you could at least salvage for scrap. Those HDs and Ram will go down a treat in most new PCs, or you could ebay the useless bits and put the cash towards the replacement.</font><br><br><blockquote><hr>Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 17:53:40 +0100<br>From: stuart.james.burns@gmail.com<br>To: chester@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Subject: [Chester LUG] Keep or throw<br><br>Interesting issue and part of me says keep it, it works. Part of me says throw it, its broken<br><br>I have a 6U Dual Xeon 2.8 server, 2 GB RAM, Dual Gig NICS and half a TB of SCSI disk space.<br><br>Now one of the disks failed. I replaced it with a new one. However it is not the disk that is failed. It is the backplane slot that has failed. Now if I put the disk in one of the spare slots, it works. It has two volumes, a mirrored one of 73 GB that works fine, and the "broken" half TB one.<br>
<br>However in my mind its broken. For a core machine to have a physical failure of this nature, it doesn't sit easy. It is also well out of warranty.<br><br>I have just been told to replace it. What would you chaps do ?<br>
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