[AccessD] Clients and money

You know in a sense you are correct.  Storage is cheap, my time is not.  For
the cost of my time it took to track down the problem and fix it they could
have purchased an entire server (well half of one anyway).  Not to mention
lost productivity by their employees.

OTOH they get sucked in by DELL to buy a machine with SCSI drives running at
15K RPM but only 60 gigs, and they don't dare open the server to drop a new
drive in (or don't know how).  That is what is really sad.  They had SCSI
superfast drives so small that it was totally choked up with garbage.  How
fast was that in the end?

Plus everyone in a small company is running around trying to get work done,
not really watching these kinds of things.

I am betting that they spent more on their three servers from Dell than I
spent in building and maintaining my servers, and mine have dedicated raid
cards with terabyte storage.  I spend the bucks though because I know the
need and the consequences.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:59 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Clients and money

Given the cost of storage - that's just sad. I have one client where they
disregard server needs as badly as your client of reference. They've run
into problems a number of times because of it and have paid me more to
recover/repair their damage than it would have cost to follow my advice.
That's just sad. I keep giving them the advice and even tell them that
they'd save money in comparison to have me keep fixing the result of not
doing it. What can a guy do?

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby

LOL.  The BE (800 megs compacted) is on a 60 gig hard drive that had 6 gigs
left. 

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