Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 05:39:43PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote:
Asus is fantastic! for a consumer-level board, especially their
enthusiast line.
However, do not buy Asus for production work. For workstations,
servers, and non-consumer-grade desktops, Asus
is subpar, as are many other popular brands. The goal is not "high
availability".
What brand board would you use for a reliable box?
You would not agree with that statement. I wonder what the criteria are
for "production work". My EPOX-8VTAI?
Hugo
The criteria depend on the production.
My own estimates for lifetimes (if it were up to me):
Secretary: 5-6 years
College Student: 4 years
Engineering Workstation: 18 months
Mail Server, before spam: 10-15 years
Mail Server, Post Spam: 2 years
Web Server, dialup: 6 years
Web Server, before video: 5 years
Web Server, after video: 18 months
DB server, before Oracle: 25 years (mainframe, with upgrades)
DB, post-Oracle, before-Google: 5 years
DB, post-Google: 1.5-3 years
Final Rendering: 3-9 months (one animated feature film)
(I'm prepared to be wrong on ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^)
(Key word is "Final")
Space shuttle: 35-40 years
Space Station: 5-6 years
Air traffic controller: 50 years
Network router: 1 year (now)
Consumer wireless router: 1 year (sad but true)
Nuclear power plant: Variable
Consumer PC: 4.5-6 years
Prosumer PC: 3 years
Enthusiast PC: 18 months
Diehard Crazy person PC: 9 months or less
Supercomputer: Surprisingly long
Chess-playing Supercomputer: Surprisingly short
Debian User PC: Infinity
Substitute your own numbers. Add more categories. Enjoy.
Mark Allums
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