On Saturday 05 February 2005 18:13, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Peterhin writes: [snip] > - Moving parts are not subjected to thermal and mechanical stresses of > starting and stopping. For example, disk drives and fans are under less > stress during continuous running than they are at the moment when they > start and stop. Failures are more likely to occur when a mechanical > part is started up than during continuous operation.
Ah. I bet there are more than a few people here who can repeat a horror story about what happened when a long running server was shut down. I remember several years ago we had a HP server at work that had been running nonstop for about three years. One day, due to a major electrical upgrade in the computer room, the sysadmin had to cold start it. Three hard drives would not come back up. Everyone except the sysadmins had a four-day weekend. Since then they've switched to using multiple, redundant hot-swappable hardware. I have a file server in the house that runs continuously. It sits on an UPS. Everything else is shut down at night. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
