And by the way, running PCs into very old age without rebuilding, just was not possible before due to use of rotating platter hard drives. So even old PCs, like Jon's Optiplex, had to be rebuilt to be used beyond 5 years.
With SSDs, the situation is principally different and, in the absence of massive writes, SSDs with wear leveling essentially are good forever. The uses that I had in mind (running my personal CVS and nameserver), should easily be supportable by a PC that is 10 years old. I had motherboard troubles with my basement desktop, that also serves as a CVS server, and hated it because essentially I could do no software development of my own for a day. i ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
