[olug] server life span

[Chris Garrity]

American Megatrends has some FreeBSD based NAS systems; IDE desktop case 
configurations, to large scale SCSI 3U configurations.

Press release: http://www.ami.com/ami/showpress.cfm?PrID=100

bbrush at unlnotes.unl.edu wrote:

>A SAN would definitely make server hardware upgrades cheaper, but the
>initial investment is significant.  An absolute bare-bones SAN appliance
>will run you $50K easily.
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>I've spent the last 6 months looking at SAN's and I like Xiotech's
>Magnitude the best so far.  It has some limitations, but I'm willing to
>live with them.  EMC makes good stuff but it's expensive, and IMO it's
>geared towards high-availability and large enterprises.
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>Bill
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>                      roger schmeits                                                                                   
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>Greetings:
>Gotta' bitch..  We bought a Proliant 3000 4 years. Since then we have
>added several disks and an additional cpu. Currently it have about 50G
>of storage space. Main function is a file server.
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>this machine has served us well. But at the end of this year it comes
>off the hardware support contact and now must look for a new bigger
>faster server.
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>I hate retiring servers.
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>It seems silly to spend several thousand dollars and retire it 4 years
>later.  Is it me or what??  Why cant a person add another blade of some
>sort and keep the machine another 4 years of support. Is there a better
>way of upgrading servers than this???
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>Might be time to look at a SAN.
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>done with rant..
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>Roger
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