At Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:14:13 -0300 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > On Oct 10, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > > >> The better solution would be to make sure you are prepared for when > >> the hardware does fail. Inform the client that you understand that > >> they don't want to upgrade the servers, and that hardware failure is > >> not a case of "if" but "when". Lay out a plan to them describing > >> what > >> would happen when that occurs, and how you will make sure that their > >> downtime is minimal. > > > > For the win! > > > > This is by far the best approach if you want to bring them along. It > > has to be THEIR decision, so the best way to get them to make that > > decision is to sit back and say "OK, if you don't want to upgrade that > > is fine, but we still have to make sure we are prepared for when that > > hardware fails, so here is what we'll do ..." > > > > That will probably scare the crap out of them enough to change their > > minds :-) > > Can you get something like the average lifespan of the circuits in > hours ? > > There should be something saying that in the best case scenario the > processor can work X thousand hours and die. Although I don't know > where that information could be available :-) The *circuits* will last more than 10 years -- things like the processors, etc. so long as they are not abused (eg cooked (overheated)). What wears out are things like power supplies (thermal stress, aging filter caps, etc.), fans (bearings), disk drives (bearings, magnatic coating). Basicically anything that normally is warm/hot or has some kind of friction situation (anything machinical / moving parts / bearings). Yes, things like processor chips do die, but as often as not, the thermal grease has dried up and/or the processor fan died and/or a case fan has died and/or the power supply went south -- any of these can take the processor out. > > -Giovanni > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/