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Exactly.

I work with a number of medium sized businesses of which you can clearly tell who have had and who havent had major downtime due to these types of hardware failures.

Many people who have never experienced issues have no interest in even forming a basic DR plan, but the ones who have just start throwing money at you the moment you mention it.

Buying more stuff is WAY cheaper than slowness and downtime, and penny pinching on this count is going to cause so much additional heartache for what will in the end cost more anyway.