I may be teaching my grandmother to suck eggs here, but why not factor in the price of <br>a spare PSU/RAID controller & disk at the same time. This is borne out of a number of <br>experiences where management thought that RAID=100%uptime.
<br><br>tid<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 22/07/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin A. Brooks</b> <<a href="mailto:martin@hinterlands.org">martin@hinterlands.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ian Norton-Badrul wrote:<br>> Hi Guys n Gals,<br>><br>> I'm pricing up bits to build myself a new RAID array for my 'in-the-garage'<br>> server, so far I figure that I can get four 320Gb disks for about 170 quid form
<br>> ebuyer, Anyone know of any better?<br><br>Yes, pretty much anything bought from any other supplier. Google<br>"ebuyer horror stories".<br>--<br>Gllug mailing list - <a href="mailto:Gllug@gllug.org.uk">
Gllug@gllug.org.uk</a><br><a href="http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug">http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug</a><br></blockquote></div><br>