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define 'legitimate entrepeneur' :)

Agreed - I run Wireshark continuously -- Its the best way to see who is doing what to whom

In Russia I have always thought the KGB was the Governement was the Russian Mafia. Its called a Thug-ocracy not an Oligarchy and all faiths are eligible to join - as long as they have the muscle

Credibility of the source means a great deal IMHO http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2013/03/warcosts

RT=Russian TV

One Screen on the table. Next to the coffee cup (I'm a simple lad....) :D

This might easily be the best thread I have ever read on ET

Thats why I build my own

Agreed, and if your pulling down 7 figures a year - you can afford any level of expertise you choose. Which is the way things ought to work

If you've never lost data due to hardware failure you haven't gone wrong so far. But IMHO if your system does not have sufficient redundancy you are playing uphill against the odds. Understanding these risks is pretty fundamental to alot of endeavors, no? To Thomas' point. This is...

You should run whatever you can afford that works for you Not my business or interest in what you spend or how you spend it My point remains the same - (I see no reason why you would infer it as a slur)

What? You missed it?

As I recall the discussion started with with a mis-statement about Raid 1 performance that was fairly pertinent to the OPs original question. Getting from there to the size of somebody elses P&L is a bit of a stretch - but hey...

I rarely argue Just offer my humble opinions and pithy observations Which is all I have done here

We ran them as warehouse systems -- good honest work for a couple of my SAs

lol http://www.dmgi.net/Products/Enterprise%2010000%20Server.html ahhh... good times, good times

You're welcome to overpay for anything you buy computers, cars, houses, investments just not how I choose to do my thinking or make my decisions

"I have unix gear which is 15 years old and has run continuously in that time and never had a drive failure. " I ran a 10 Terabyte Solaris shop for a financial services company for many years - Raised floor, clean power, chilled air. A system running even 2 years without a single drive...

infrastructure... my designs are built based on requirements, never overspec... I think this is key - and I am of the same opinion I'm puzzled by someo f the posts on this board laying out specs for $3000 machines where its not clear what applications would require that kind of hardware...