On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: > On a secondary note, the uptime record for our own machines is only > about 200 days or so. Hardware, in particular power supplies and fans > in commodity machines, has a tendency to give out after such a long > time. It is only on enterprise hardware, where such components are not > only of very high quality but also often redundant so that a power > supply or fan failure will not bring down the system, that I have ever > seen uptimes much higher than that.
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