[rescue] SGI goodies anyone?

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On 10/17/2010 9:57 PM, Richard wrote:
> In article <4CB9D239.4030805 at metrocast.net>,
>     Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net> writes:
> 
>> Personally I would love to have something on the class of an Onyx2 or
>> E10K, *if I could afford to run it*.
> 
> I don't understand why people think that such machines need to be on
> 24x7.

I think it is more that they can take a long time to start up and shut
down, plus, power cycling them often can reduce the life of the components.

--Patrick