[Chester LUG] Keep or throw

[Stuart Burns]

Interesting issue and part of me says keep it, it works. Part of me says
throw it, its broken

I have a 6U Dual Xeon 2.8 server, 2 GB RAM, Dual Gig NICS and half a TB of
SCSI disk space.

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.

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.

I have just been told to replace it. What would you chaps do ?
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