Bad Dell Bad!
I think I am attracting bad quotes this month. About a year ago i purchased two new Dell servers for www.mlds-networks.com that cost me around $1200 new. These systems came with 1 year on site next day warranty. Now this is standard for servers and buissnes related products. This is much better than any consumer warranty which are also only 1 year unless you buy extra.
Now everyone is the computer industry knows that computers loser value faster then just about anything on the market. A system you buy today you could be lucky to find 1 year from now because the cost of parts has dropped so much and performance would be double for the same price or less.
Now Dell has called and emailed and snail mailed me more things on ‘BUY EXTENDED WARRANTY NOW!!’ Now I almost never buy these things but if they are a good enough deal Ill bite. I request a quote.
$1,655.04 for 4 years.
Well I only planned for the servers to last 3 years before I replace them but hey why not 5 years! Please people this is more than I paid for the hardware that in 2 more years is worth about $200 if new (its not now). Also I purchased two because I run these machines in a active passive form so that if one fails the other takes over. Not a single machine is critical and both systems are built from parts I can buy at Best Buy etc.
Well you can guess by now that the machines are out of warranty and will stay so until I pull office space of them.
