Just spit-balling here....
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I wouldn't listen to NAS vendors - of course they will do anything they can to undermine the competition, but you can give a little credit to the SW users, assuming they are providing a solution that makes sense, which in this case sounds like they aren't and instead are just regurgitating what the vendors have sold them.
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@Dashrender said:
@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender said:
I buy the server and install the HDDs and RAM, and if needed, the second processor. Doesn't that qualify for what you are saying?
Honestly, it damn near does. Why are you not buying this server built to spec? How much are you saving doing it yourself? How much time are you spending researching things and choosing components, etc.
Hold the phone - who specs your servers? Don't you do that? meaning you need to do all that research to know what parts you want in the box?
Now sure, I could pay CDW to put all of the components into the chassis, but frankly I enjoy that bit of down time in the mental process.
We just bought four new blades with 1TB of RAM. And we buy tons of equipment all the time. Ain't nobody got time to put in RAM!
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@PSX_Defector said:
We just bought four new blades with 1TB of RAM. And we buy tons of equipment all the time. Ain't nobody got time to put in RAM!
They pay you to much to even install the blade, let alone the RAM on the blade.
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@Dashrender said:
@PSX_Defector said:
We just bought four new blades with 1TB of RAM. And we buy tons of equipment all the time. Ain't nobody got time to put in RAM!
They pay you to much to even install the blade, let alone the RAM on the blade.
Well, someone gotta put it in. And that's the smarthands in the DC.
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Yup, although when I worked with enormous datacenters for Wall St. we were modifying drives, CPUs, memory, etc. all of the time. That's because we had our own dedicated server bench department (think A+ techs but for the datacenter) who did mobo replcaements, RAID card replacements, set up ILOs, etc. all day, every day. So modifying Proliants and SunFires was daily work and done constantly so that every team had custom builds, whether new or recommissioned, all of the time.
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@PSX_Defector said:
@Dashrender said:
@PSX_Defector said:
We just bought four new blades with 1TB of RAM. And we buy tons of equipment all the time. Ain't nobody got time to put in RAM!
They pay you to much to even install the blade, let alone the RAM on the blade.
Well, someone gotta put it in. And that's the smarthands in the DC.
exactly - again you cost to much to do that work... I'm salary - and sure, while my time could be spent better doing other things, I'll take my own prerogative in these rare cases of getting new hardware
