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Think about it this way:
If a need comes up, it's going to take months to get all the paperwork done to get new hardware.
If you have idle hardware, you're ready to go ASAP.
It's also a form of redundancy, albeit a primitive one. If equipment goes out, you have stuff you can swap out immediately.
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Think about it this way:
If a need comes up, it's going to take months to get all the paperwork done to get new hardware.
If you have idle hardware, you're ready to go ASAP.
It's also a form of redundancy, albeit a primitive one. If equipment goes out, you have stuff you can swap out immediately.