Frankly waiting for the box to break will loose you the client. I would change the box but use the original Hard Drive, it only takes a couple of minutes on a small system.
Henry L.Coleman CEO *VoIP-PBX* 1-866-415-5355 Toronto Ontario Canada > On Wednesday 11 October 2006 15:16, Douglas Garstang wrote: >> Are you serious? Would you really just wait until a system looked like >> it >> was on shaky ground before deciding to build a new one? What about if >> some >> other component failed? What about the myriad of other failures you >> didn't >> think of ahead of time? Do you really think that it's ok for a system >> that >> hosts less than 50-60 users to be unavailable while a new system is >> built? >> We're talking about VOICE service here, not someones email access. >> People >> can do without email for a period of time but they are very sensitive to >> a >> lack of dialtone. > > How many small to medium businesses do you know with redundant Meridian > hardware on the shelf? Hell, how many small to medium businesses do you > know > that have their KSU or PBX on a UPS? > >> Btw, I showed this email to a senior telecom guy here in the office. >> Initially his eyes widened, and then he laughed and said he'd certainly >> never get you to build his telecom infrastructure. > > I'd love to see a senior telecom guy in a small to medium business. His > eyes > would fall out of his head and he'd be escorted out of the building > laughing. > > I completely understand your need for redundancy, but most places that > Asterisk is being installed in to don't have that kind of redundancy in > place > in the first place. > > -A. > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
