I've been in the NGO sector for over a decade- any box that doesn't not have redundant PS, ALWAYS is purchased with a spare- and the ones that go into our field offices (africa - latin america) not only get spare PS, but also spare fans spare drive and spare controller- our field offices only get 1u 1/2 depth servers.
But the cost of shipping one (DHL) is more expensive than the part itself. Jean-Paul Natola > From: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:49:37 -0400 > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Ultimate home lab? > To: [email protected] > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hmm - not sure what non-standard parts the Microserver uses (except that it > > has iLO4 - I suppose > > that's not-standard). Care to elaborate? > > I was thinking the power supply, possibly the RAID controller, > although I don't know how that's implemented in that little bitty box. > :) > > > The power supply isn't redundant - but for SOHO, I'd have a warranty > > agreement to cover that. Or buy two. > > Yah, that's certainly an option, and a smart org would do that, but > most SOHOs aren't smart about such things. Of course, they often > don't buy the alternatives, either. > > -- Ben > >
