Island
06-05-2008, 01:27 PM
Is there anything between dedicated and colo?
Specifically, if I want to go with a dedicated server with a number of 15k sas drives, and expect to have the server here for a long time, the fees for the drives become steep (while on the contrary, if someone gets the server for only a couple months, it's a good deal.) If I want a server that I plan to keep for 3 years though, that's $1080 per 73 GB 15k sas drive, drives that I just bought for my workstation here at $225 each (cheetah 15k.5 73 GB sas) Obviously having hardware SLA and replacements on site is worth some dollars, but that's steep if I want to keep the server for a long time. With just two 15k.5 drives, that's $1710 extra for the pair of hard drives. Another datacenter I have servers at has an option to buy hard drives with a one time fee that is basically 2.25x retail price to give them some profit to enable keeping spares on site, etc. Does steadfast have any similar option?
Specifically, if I want to go with a dedicated server with a number of 15k sas drives, and expect to have the server here for a long time, the fees for the drives become steep (while on the contrary, if someone gets the server for only a couple months, it's a good deal.) If I want a server that I plan to keep for 3 years though, that's $1080 per 73 GB 15k sas drive, drives that I just bought for my workstation here at $225 each (cheetah 15k.5 73 GB sas) Obviously having hardware SLA and replacements on site is worth some dollars, but that's steep if I want to keep the server for a long time. With just two 15k.5 drives, that's $1710 extra for the pair of hard drives. Another datacenter I have servers at has an option to buy hard drives with a one time fee that is basically 2.25x retail price to give them some profit to enable keeping spares on site, etc. Does steadfast have any similar option?