On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 00:36, Teun Vink wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 14:13, Jason Lim wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was wondering what kind of failures you experience with long-running > > hardware. > > > > Most of us run servers with very long uptimes (we've got a server here > > with uptime approaching 3 years, which is not long compared to some, but > > we think it is pretty good!). > [...] > > > This is only from my own experiences at the ISP I work for. Old machines > (~5 year) which we used for testing purposes usually had problems with > the harddisk and/or the fans. Motherboards, NIC's and CPU's usually > worked fine in test setups...
Without a doubt, Fans are the weakest link. We have also had a batch of motherboards where the secondary IDE interface failed after about 1 year... but that's pretty unusual. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ABO: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info, including pgp key ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
