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Third-party warranty for old Dell server?
We have a server we will need for one more year and since it is more than
five years old Dell will not sell us maintenance contract (yes, that is one more reason to use HP for servers). Is there a third party you can recommend? Thanks |
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Third-party warranty for old Dell server?
Hi!
Is there a third party you can recommend? If you only need the server for another year, are you really going to need a warranty? If (big if) the machine goes down, how soon does it need to be back up? Think about this: 1. If a failure occurs, you can probably buy whatever part you need for a lot less than the cost of a warranty. 2. The most likely part to fail is going to be a disk storage device. If need be, you can keep some extra disks on hand. If you have a RAID array, you should already have these on hand. 3. If your hardware is running properly, and has survived the first 24 hours of its life without incident, further failures will be a long way off. Computer hardware is one of those things that typically either works or does not. I think the best idea is to purchase some of the parts that are likely to fail (disks, power supplies, memory) and have them on hand. Then, when the time comes to retire the server, you can consider selling it, and the extra parts will improve its value. William |
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Third-party warranty for old Dell server?
"just bob" kilbyfan@aoldotcom wrote in message ... We have a server we will need for one more year and since it is more than five years old Dell will not sell us maintenance contract (yes, that is one more reason to use HP for servers). Is there a third party you can recommend? Thanks Depends where in the world you are but HP have a division called Hewlett Packard CDS which does exactly what you want, HPCDs was orignally synstar Computer services untill HP bought them, and they are the preferred 3rd party Maintenance company for HP-EDS |
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