I'd agree an extra $1K for much longer service life is a good value over prepping another block - assuming you catch the first one in the "cracked but working" stage.
Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.
