{"id":99,"date":"2005-07-06T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2024-03-04T19:19:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T19:19:42","slug":"99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2005\/07\/06\/99\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/informationweek.storagepipeline.com\/howto\/164902699\">Safely Purchasing Second-Hand Storage Gear<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>A few customers of ours called us or sent us links over over the last few days to point out this article which features <span style=\"color: #006600; font-weight: bold;\">Zerowait<\/span>.<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> I like the article a lot! <\/span> The article goes into the proper way to purchase used and remanufactured equipment and what to watch out for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The article also has some bullet points that refer to studies that say that many customers are looking for a ROI on their storage gear in the 5 to 7 year range, but as I have pointed out previously,<span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #990000;\">NetApp<\/span>;<span> like so many other manufacturers, focuses on a refresh cycle of 3 years. This is the disconnect that enables <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #006600;\">Zerowait<\/span> to grow. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"color: #006600;\">Zerowait<\/span> focuses on providing affordable ongoing service and support for systems beyond the 3 year window, which are still reliably serving data<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11084229-112059855674462582?l=zerowait.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Safely Purchasing Second-Hand Storage Gear A few customers of ours called us or sent us links over over the last few days to point out this article which features Zerowait. I like the article a lot! The article goes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2005\/07\/06\/99\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}