On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:33 AM, M. D. <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/28/2012 09:57 AM, David Boreham wrote: >> >> On 9/28/2012 9:46 AM, Craig James wrote: >>> >>> Your best warranty would be to have the confidence to do your own >>> repairs, and to have the parts on hand. I'd seriously consider >>> putting your own system together. Maybe go to a few sites with >>> pre-configured machines and see what parts they use. Order those, >>> screw the thing together yourself, and put a spare of each critical >>> part on your shelf. >>> >> This is what I did for years, but after taking my old parts collection to >> the landfill a few times, realized I may as well just buy N+1 machines and >> keep zero spares on the shelf. That way I get a spare machine available for >> use immediately, and I know the parts are working (parts on the shelf may be >> defective). If something breaks, I use the spare machine until the >> replacement parts arrive. >> >> Note in addition that a warranty can be extremely useful in certain >> organizations as a vehicle of blame avoidance (this may be its primary >> purpose in fact). If I buy a bunch of machines that turn out to have buggy >> NICs, well that's my fault and I can kick myself since I own the company, >> stay up late into the night reading kernel code, and buy new NICs. If I have >> an evil Dilbertian boss, then well...I'd be seriously thinking about buying >> Dell boxes in order to blame Dell rather than myself, and be able to say >> "everything is warrantied" if badness goes down. Just saying... >> > I'm kinda in the latter shoes. Dell is the only thing that is trusted in my > organisation. If I would build my own, I would be fully blamed for anything > going wrong in the next 3 years. Thanks everyone for your input. Now my > final choice will be if my budget allows for the latest and fastest, else > I'm going for the x5690. I don't have hundreds of users, so I think the > x5690 should do a pretty good job handling the load. If people in your organization trust Dell, they just haven't dealt with them enough. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
