Reluctant to recommend servers that aren't new?
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We've had quite a few people asking about new over here at the Monkey. On-site and Pro-Support warranties aside, after full burn-in testing most of the issues come from Hard-Drives or faulty raid memory that I've seen. A couple of R710's with new hard drives is nothing to shake a (reliability) stick at. Of course the 1-3 year warranty comes into play.
Personally, I'm an IT/Procurement guy so actual cost savings and figures is something I'd have to find a sales guy to chime in on.
People have quotes, ideas, and problems; sometimes we can make it work, and sometimes you just need new haha. I mean, with today's life-cycles in SMB buying IT equipment is almost like buying a car honesty.
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In huge server estates, RAID memory has been effectively a non-issue but system memory was pretty big.
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I would not recommend Used or Refurb gear to my company. I just don't see the value in it. Hardware is so cheap these days.
Most Small to Medium businesses only need a few Servers to host their virtual environment of 50-100 servers.
