On 5/12/2011 3:29 AM, Markus Neviadomski wrote:
And the costs of hardware could be igored, if you have to recover broken or lost data w/o raid or backup!
This typically holds true in the US where the total cost of labor is far greater than hardware. This is definitely not the case in 'developing' countries, where the acquisition cost of a single tier 1 server may very well be greater than an SA's yearly salary.
~$20k can buy you a 2 socket 24 core AMD Magny Cours HP server with 32GB RAM, quad GbE ports, a 10 GbE PCIe x4/x8 NIC, LSI's top of the line PCIe x8 RAID HBA with 1GB BBWC and 2 SFF8088 SAS ports, two LSI 24 drive 2.5" chainable SAS enclosures w/ internal expanders and 48 SAS drives of 300GB capacity and 15k spindle speed.
The cost of this system, in many parts of the world, may be double (or more) the yearly salary of the SA managing it. In the US this system's price tag will equal about 1/4 to 1/6th the SA's total yearly compensation package, depending on the SA's state/city.
-- Stan