This was about 10 years ago and it was for a large RS/6000 system. I think the disk subsystem was only 50 or 60 gig, but it was very sophisticated and extremely fault tolerant.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dan Star Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] virus/spam problem You must need a lot of disk for it to cost 50K for an Intel server. External and Terabytes? Roland Sickenberger wrote: > Not around here. We once had a hard drive crash on our main server, > the owner asked me what we could do to prevent it from happening > again. I proposed a $50,000 raid 5 subsystem (about 1/4 of the cost of > the entire server). He said "No, too much money". Less than a month > the existing subsystem crashed again and the company still wouldn't > replace it with a raid system! Those two incidents probably cost us > 1/4 million in lost revenue. I finally got my raid subsystem when I > bought a brand new server (had to sneak it in though). Someday we'll > learn. Regards, > Roland > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of R. Scott > Perry > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 10:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] virus/spam problem > > >Thanks for the info. I really should get the company to invest the > >money in Declude, but with business the way it is right now I don't > >think it would fly. > > That's understandable. A lot of companies buy Declude Virus after > they get hit by a virus, rather than beforehand. It's a lot easier to > get approval > for a purchase that could have prevented a problem that already > occurred, > than to get approval for a purchase that could prevent a hypothetical > problem. > > -Scott > --- > Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. > http://www.declude.com > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus > (http://www.declude.com)] > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
