At 00:54 01/03/2006, you wrote:
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 16:39 -0800, Timothy Alberts wrote: > > These systems have been consistently unreliable. I've been through 3 > systems that had CPU fans die over night and burnt > processors/motherboards. Several banks of memory, a couple power > supplies, NIC cards that don't survive power surges (something we > frequently get with a machine shop in the building) and of coarse the > ever failing hard drives in the RAID arrays. Sounds like a good UPS would help a lot. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
I'll second the recommendation for using a UPS. I've got three in my house - one for my computer system with a reasonably expensive scanner and printer attached, one on my son's computer and one very small one protecting the DECT base station for the phones, the answering machine, the cable modem and the router, plus a Belkin Gold series mains socket block with phone and cable TV surge arrestors, to stop line surges getting to the phone equipment or cable modem. Since I did this, there's been no trouble at all with any hardware.
So far as purchasing systems is concerned, I've not got a great deal of experience, but what I've done recently is purchase quality parts from known manufacturers - genuine Intel motherboards made by Intel, retail pack P4 processors with fans supplied, Crucial memory, Seagate hard drives, cases and PSUs by Coolermaster and Antec. Out of the few systems I've built recently, one power supply died at about one month old and was exchange under warranty. No other problems at all.
Just because a system is built by somebody such as HP doesn't make it immune to surges. In the days before broadband, we used to run an HP Netserver at work. One day after a thunderstorm the night before, the email stopped working. A surge had taken out both the modem and the serial port built into the motherboard. The rest of the machine died a year or two later. So, again I say ALWAYS use a UPS. I paid the full price for the first one I bought, then realised I could get perfectly good, latest USB connected APC units from ebay for £20 or £30. A cheap price to pay to protect equipment costing many times more.
Dave F
