# post your latest purchase

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**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [January 27, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-latest-purchase/195074 "2008-01-27T20:21:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 7:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-latest-purchase/195074/641 "2008-06-18T07:58:33Z")

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> [@what do ppl think of the cobalt ss?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-ppl-think-of-the-cobalt-ss/36836/43):
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> It is when the amount of money you make is dependent on the job getting completed and MTBF of greater than one year on those drive arrays.
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> Say you can complete 30 analysis jobs a year on RAID 1 and 35 on RAID 0.
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> Say each job makes the company on average $100,000.
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> I find that to be worth the risk if you back up the job files frequently and you’re only down a day to rebuild the system if it does crash…

anyone that uses raid 0 for large database infrastructure should be more concerned about knowledge transfer for their staff, rather than disk speed. 🙂

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