I'm lucky I'm past all of that. I've been telling them for a year that we need to replace all of the XP machines (40+) and they have approved it... so the purchasing has been happening with some help from Danielle.
Awesome, good to know that NTG is able to help out!
What about DAC? isn't that still a factor with any parity RAID?
Yes it is. However, it is suspected that much of DAC is a second order consequence of URE. And also a lot of DAC is believed to come from drive vibration. Both things are fixed with SSD. So it is believed that the likelihood of DAC is lower.
@Bill-Kindle Interesting. I can see how that would be useful. Reminds me, in a way, of the end of The Dark Knight. Not sonar but being able to reference things from multiple points of view would be useful.
I'm actually looking forward to this LTS as a possible every day desktop for myself. I've never been fully on board with taking the plunge, but the increasing irrelevance of the underlying OS is making using a stable and secure platform that much more attractive to me.