On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:23 PM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> If the future continues anything like the past, you'll be be able to
>> buy something new with twice the speed and 10x the space by then and
>> be better off starting over than allocating more than you need today.
>
> a) You think I, or a *lot* of other folks, are going to do that at home?
> (Please - I'm trying to get my fiancee to at *least* go from
> *shudder* Vista to Win7)
If you leave them on, add up the power cost of running an old box for years.
> b) I'm a federal contractor, on site. You think the Republicans in
> Congress are going to increase our budget, to replace all servers
> over three or four years old?
Yes, if someone does the report to show that it will save money in the
big picture... But you don't necessarily throw out the 3 year old
boxes, you can re-purpose them to something where people aren't
waiting idly for their results, keeping some others for spare parts.
In any case, someone should be accounting for the space/power/cooling
that old hardware takes while accomplishing 10% as much as new.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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