Jonathan Nicol wrote: > Very true about them failing in batches, but.. the PSUs are almost > never made by the same manufacturer as the motherboard etc. We had a > batch of Sparkle PSUs all fail within months of each other, but the > Supermicro motherboards are still going strong years later..
We still have a few hundred Dell 1650s that are still going strong. We replaced a few power supplies since we bought them (mostly in 2003-2004), but not more than 20 or so out of 500+ 1650s (each is/was dual PS, so more than 1000 power supplies). The damn things just won't die. But a few of the Cisco switches we had over the past few years seemed to eat power supplies like donuts. Every Friday morning... --tep _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/