[Tfug] Hardware reliability

[Judd Pickell]

While I am not as long in experience as yourself, I have noticed that for
the most part most of my computers luckily seem to keep running. While I
have had an occasional failure from time to time, it is still a rarity. I
still have computers that I picked up 10 years ago running like tops. Or a
couple of pieces of hardware (p100 hp desktop, for example) that I picked up
that are much older and still running well.

Although I can not speak the same for enterprise hardware I have worked with
in my programming history. I have seen systems fail, although mostly just
losing a hard drive or getting a bad memory stick. I don't think I have had
a CPU completely fail on anything. Oh there was one that lost a redundant
power supply, but that is hardly noteworthy.

Sincerely,
Judd Pickell
Terralever

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I had to replace the cooler on the graphics processor in
> a machine tonight -- which got me thinking...
>
> Aside from fans (and one CD-RW), I can't recall any real
> hardware failures in any of my machines (that's over the
> course of 30 years -- and I tend to hold onto machines for
> much longer than the average joe  :-/  )
>
> I know there have been certain systemic failures in the
> industry caused by bad *components* (e.g., bad Ecaps).
> But, it seems like most of this stuff just keeps on
> ticking (or, the bathtub is a lot wider than I had
> imagined!)
>
> Have other folks had similar experiences?  Have I just been
> "lucky"?
>
>
>
>
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