I can say that I have not seen this and I have decommissioned a few servers in the last 12 months, some of which are over 7 years old in which I had to bring back online for various reasons, but none of them had any problems. I have been more concerned with the disk seizing, but fortunately I have not experienced that either.
Russ Clark -----Original Message----- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 12:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: GibbsBlog: Death by Old PSUs Has anyone here undergone something like this? ------- Included Stuff Follows ------- Death by Old PSUs Submitted by Mark Gibbs on Fri, 01/25/2008 - 3:01pm. I just read a mail list posting in which a friend explained how he had to shut down and number of servers in a data center for facilities maintenance for the first time in six years -- the machines had all been running non-stop for the whole time. On restart a significant number failed because -- it is suspected -- the power supplies which could supply power for normal operation could no longer handle startup conditions! The suspicion is that electrolyte evaporation in the PSU capacitors is the most likely cause! Wow. Is there a disaster waiting to happen in your data center? I did a quick search on this topic but not being an electrical engineer I may not have been using the right search terms. Anyone know anything about this problem? --------- Included Stuff Ends --------- http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/24346 Oh, and Happy Friday! May all your servers stay up all weekend ... Angus ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
