All of which are nearly infinitesimal compared to losing a drive in a dell desktop.. But you clearly don't understand RAID
Always on until your network goes down, or that computer pukes all over itself.
Heres the rub, what if your desktop pukes itself? with a web based app all I have to do is throw another desktop at you rather than fart around paying help desk to fix a box I should by all rights not care about.
Centralization of functionality does nothing but centralize your critical point of failure.
(1) There person in charge of that point is a competent IT professional, not Jane the secretary who opens every ecard she gets in her email..
(2) With the use of redundant servers, *GOOD* data storage architecture, and incremental logging of data you stand less of a chance losing time on a centralized app than if you have one or two people with critical information on their desktop.
The more a company lives and dies by a small number of computers the worse shape it's in if one of those computers has troubles.
My feeling is the less control you give to experienced IT professionals the worse off any company will be..
Interesting how you completely ignore where I said raid is a good thing and a necessary thing then take one of my quotes and use that out of context to say I don't understand raid. Show where I said desktop storage is superior to raid, I didn't, stop putting words in my mouth, or we're done.
Compitent profesional IT people can still have the network go down. It's an imperfect world, screws fall out, powersupplies blow up, motherboards get old, memory gets old, drives get old, viruses happen.
Oh so now you need to decentralize your centralized applications with redundant servers, this "cheap" option just got a lot more expensive because you're now doubling the quantity of big iron in the shop.
I'm not saying all data should be stored exclusively on the desktop, in fact I said the opposite. Once again you're lying about what I said to get a point. Because you have no point if you stick to what I said. Central fileserver good; raid good; backups, as much as you can do them, good; local storage on top of all that helpful when the feces hits the rotating device which it eventually always does (plus of course local storage and locally run applications are loads faster, so not only do you maintain productivity during bad network times you always have higher productivity when the network is working).
I don't give a damn about your feeling, I'm talking about reality, and the reality is the more you centralize the more you're inviting disaster. There's a reason our very government model is decentralized, centralization invites disaster regardless of what it is you're centralizing.
I thought you said you left the site? Another one of your lies?