From what I've known the L5640 seems to balance everything really well at a fantastic price. I see a lot of people talking about upgrading from the 56xx series to newer systems to save on cost and it got me scratching my head while I'm trying to pick a new storage server.
The cost to jump up to a newer generation is pretty ridiculous at this point. I'm talking double, triple or even quadruple the price depending on options you're looking for. Does anyone really see a $500-$1000 savings over 3~4 years just due to cutting the wattage of a server? I can't imagine that is possible. It costs about $150/yr to run a dual L5640 server each year... if I cut that in half with an upgrade that only saves me about $350 over 5 years... that's not even close to how much more a newer generation server costs. And I'm not even going to see the power consumption cut in half anyway...
So what am I missing? Is it just a data point in people's list of reasons to upgrade because they want to upgrade anyway? That I can completely understand. I just want to make sure I'm not totally missing something here or factoring costs incorrectly in some way and wasting money in the long run.
The cost to jump up to a newer generation is pretty ridiculous at this point. I'm talking double, triple or even quadruple the price depending on options you're looking for. Does anyone really see a $500-$1000 savings over 3~4 years just due to cutting the wattage of a server? I can't imagine that is possible. It costs about $150/yr to run a dual L5640 server each year... if I cut that in half with an upgrade that only saves me about $350 over 5 years... that's not even close to how much more a newer generation server costs. And I'm not even going to see the power consumption cut in half anyway...
So what am I missing? Is it just a data point in people's list of reasons to upgrade because they want to upgrade anyway? That I can completely understand. I just want to make sure I'm not totally missing something here or factoring costs incorrectly in some way and wasting money in the long run.