[rescue] WOT: Ebay changes to IBM from Sun E10K servers?

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Tue Jul 8 15:08:28 CDT 2003


On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 08:32:57PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
> Either you've been exceptionally unlucky or I've been exceptionally
> lucky 'cos I haven't had a single problem with CPU/mem boards or power
> supplies. You do have a UPS don't you ?

At $JOB-1, a telco, I had to replace at least ten CPUs and 2-3 CPU or
memory boards over the course of 2.5 years.  Bad rack layout and 
improper cooling was to blame for half of that, though; never put 
three loaded E4500s into the same cabinet.

Bill

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bill bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
austin, texas



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