Originally Posted By: Doug_Ritter
Originally Posted By: 7point82
You're not going to like my answer but in your situation I would likely go with a Dell Enterprise workstation and pay for their premium tier service.

Something I find interesting is that you say RAID has saved you twice. (You've probably already done this but...) I would double check environmentals at and power quality to your hardware if you've experienced hardware issues with any regularity. Environmental stability and clean power are GOOD. wink


All the power comes though a conditioning UPS. Hard drives fail, just a matter of when.


I figured I was preaching to the choir but since I hadn't heard it mentioned I thought I would touch on it. I do understand that failures are inevitable.
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