Ideal Server Hardware Choice
Tony Dietrich
td at transoft-adsl.demon.co.uk
Thu Mar 2 21:10:04 UTC 2006
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 10:00, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 08:53 +0000, Tony Dietrich wrote:
> > 2. One fan failure (at 14months).
>
> Ones that run constantly or only now and then? Some PC fans have
> surprising short lives, and that's not due to faults, but how long the
> manufacturer expects them to work for.
Constantly .. that machine just happened to be my own office system! And
since I tend to use that to test stuff, AND it wasn't switched off over the
entire 14 months (AFAIR) I wasn't too surprised .. leaving a system doing
batch compiling and test runs for entire weekends does kinda send the fan
wild.
In the machine's defence, I think by that time it had had about 20 OS
(re-)installs, was running vmware with about 3 different images
installed .... you get the picture :p
Seriously .. I suspect that one reason I (and James Wilkinson, see rest of
thread) get good systems from 'local' builders is that in the UK ( I have no
idea what its like in the rest of the world) we can walk into a local builder
and spec exactly what we want built. I can tell my builder "I want ASUS mb,
nVidia video, XXX memory, etc, etc" .. and if I don't get it, I don't pay,
and I don't use that builder again.
>From comments I see elsewhere, I suspect that different conventions exist
elsewhere. I exchanged emails with a Thai gentleman who told me that if he
goes to a system-builder, he can spec the broad requirements, but has no
control over the exact components .. and he also (perhaps cynically) wondered
whether, even if the mb *said* ASUS on it, it would actually *be* ASUS. :p
--
Tony
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