Re: Opinions on dropping maintance on SSD drives after the 3 year warranty expires

[Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul

so the maintenance is 15,000; against that number, what is the actual cost
of a replacement ?

Personally, I wouldn't do/recommend this.

In my experience, businesses that do this to save money then have a hell of
a time approving the cost of a replacement when the inevitable happens. If
you are going to go down this road you probably want to get something
accrued into a GL account so that the money is available and approval isn't
a night mare.

If maintenance is really one of those things people hate paying I would
look to replace the hardware to get the maintenance to 0 and go back to a
warranty situation.



On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Our 3 year warranty on our 13  SSD drives will expire Feb 2018.
> The 24x7 maintenance will be around $15,000 annually, just for the 13 SSD.
>
> ES0P    775GB SFF-3 SSD for IBM i               13      80600
>              1092                    P
>
> I have 2 Raid-5 sets, one with 6, one with 5, and two hot spares.
>
> I've never had an SSD fail in 6 years.
> The first set of SSD we swapped 3 years ago for larger SSD when they were
> coming off warranty and we needed more space.
>
> We're contemplating not putting the 13 ESOP on maintenance.
> If one would fail, I'm protected with Raid-5 with a hot spare.
> Simply buy another unit if and when a failure would occur.
>
> Any thoughts, Pros/Cons from the group.
>
> Thank You
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