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Since the top of the line 7200 RPM 9 MS hard drive costs only $3- $5 more than the 5400 RPM 12 MS hard drive that RackShack uses, and since the hard drive is often the weakest link, any chance RackShack could be talked into offering faster hard drives in their whitebox servers, esp. the AMD XP1700?
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The nature of a webserver means that lots of disk i/o occurs, so a 7.2k rpm drive is definately worth it.
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The server recommended (storagereview.com) d740x drives are cheap.
Rackshack is so big, they could easily order direct from Maxtor/ Quantum themselves, at prices even lower than we see from the shadiest places on pricewatch.com.
There's no excuse not to use the best drive for the buck in this case. A slow drive will drag down an otherwise well spec'd server. If it's their supply chain that caused them to make the poor decision to use 5400rpm drives, they really need to fire that supply chain. There are better suppliers out there who won't compromise their business.
Rackshack is so big, they could easily order direct from Maxtor/ Quantum themselves, at prices even lower than we see from the shadiest places on pricewatch.com.
There's no excuse not to use the best drive for the buck in this case. A slow drive will drag down an otherwise well spec'd server. If it's their supply chain that caused them to make the poor decision to use 5400rpm drives, they really need to fire that supply chain. There are better suppliers out there who won't compromise their business.
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As for the issue at hand, Im sure they get 5400 rpm drives far cheaper than we see them for on pricewatch because of volume and so forth but even then, Id pay another 15 or 20 a month for the far superior drive, it really does make a differance.
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A new 7200 RPM Western Digital 8.9 MS drive costs less than $80 retail, and I'm guessing that they could get them for less than $50 in volume. Revising what I said above, I would gladly pay them the whole $50, that is $400 setup instead of $350 setup, for the faster better drive.
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Any chance your White Box servers might include 7200 RPM drives any time soon? This is one of the main advantages of going with DV2 / www.tranxactglobal.com / www.eservers.biz and if Rackshack could match the quality of their hard drives (since the hard drive is one of the most important aspests of a server), I think the decision would be much easier. And I don't think it would cost you more than a $3-$5 per server to include a noticably faster drive, and people including myself would glady cover this for a much more competitive server.
Also, how about a pre-sales question forum? I'm not sure where to post this.