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PowerEdge 2600 Extended Service
Our PE2600 has worked like a champ for 4.5 years, but I see that our 4-hour service contract is expiring this coming March...and Dell has no service contracts offered past 5 years.
What's the experience with the PE2600? Will it continue to run well? Are there other 4-hour response policies available in my area (Indy)?
Our PE2600 is used basically as a file server for about 25 users. Runs no application programs other than Veritas (running W2000 Server).
Should we just plan to replace the server after 5 years as a matter of course?
Another influencing factor:
It turns out, we'll need more HD space fairly soon. Have all six SCSI bays filled (RAID'd) yielding about 300G. If we got a new server, should we go with internal SCSI array, or the external enclosure? Same question if we keep the current server.
Thx....
Evan
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Posted December 4th, 2007 11:00
If you cannot afford that type of downtime though, I'd suggest looking at a new 2900 or so. Per the tech specs it supports up to 8 or 10 drives (up to 8 SATA or up to 10 SAS). With current drive sizes, you could buy a mirror of 73's for the OS and then a 3-drive raid 5 of 300GB drives for data storage and still have room to grow in the chassis. You'd also obviously be able to get the 4 hour warranty to limit downtime.