On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
If you pay the extra, you're paying for lower risk. There is no absolute right and wrong choice - lots of times the low cost vendor is ok, and sometimes the high cost vendor is *not* ok. You can only make a blind guess as to whether or not the difference of risk is worth the extra cost. Base it on the value and importance of your data and system staying up, versus difference of cost of hardware.
in some cases, the price difference can be enough for you to have redundant whitebox systems for the price of a single high-end system. this can seriously alter the risk calculation (at the cost of double the space/power)
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