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Undertoad · 09-10-2012, 03:00 PM

Then: the drives. I will probably buy systems that have no drives and populate then with new high-quality drives, in whatever form factor looks good. This changes the costs around a little, but drives start to fail around 4-5 years in, so even in a RAID situation I'd rather start new.

But even that isn't so simple. The drives have to have the mountable "sleds" so they can push right into the hot-swappable drive slots for each particular server. Companies do this to make things more expensive; you can't buy an HP drive with a sled for under $300. So some ingenuity is going to have to go into this; I need no drives, but I need the sleds.

09-10-2012, 03:00 PM	#6
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Then: the drives. I will probably buy systems that have no drives and populate then with new high-quality drives, in whatever form factor looks good. This changes the costs around a little, but drives start to fail around 4-5 years in, so even in a RAID situation I'd rather start new. But even that isn't so simple. The drives have to have the mountable "sleds" so they can push right into the hot-swappable drive slots for each particular server. Companies do this to make things more expensive; you can't buy an HP drive with a sled for under $300. So some ingenuity is going to have to go into this; I need no drives, but I need the sleds.