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We have a compute cluster made mainly of Westmere-generation Xeons from 2011, which has been the workhorse for research publications from our group for a decade
by marmaduke 5y ago
We have a compute cluster made mainly of Westmere-generation Xeons from 2011, which has been the workhorse for research publications from our group for a decade. They are still running fine, the (non soldered, replaceable) ECC DRAM chips are failing before anything else.
- formerly_proven 5y agoBeing able to replace memory and storage is very critical for anything that will see a lot of use. Both of these are certainly not "lifetime" items.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoI never had to replace either, although I don't want them non replacable. External/cloud storage can take care of space, and memory corruption is a fear, but nothing I worry about, batteries are worst than both combined.
- formerly_proven 5y agoI don't think I ever had a single machine where I stayed with the storage it came with. As for memory, DRAM doesn't really have a particularly long lifetime (iirc design life is something like 75k hours), and that certainly shows in servers - memory modules start to fail a lot after the four year mark. And here I don't think I ever had a machine where I didn't upgrade memory at least once.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoMine came with a 500GB SSD, the older one I had I swapped it since it came with an HDD. I never had computer ram ever fail me, ever in my lifetime, have you? Unless you bought it with low specs, it isn't useful is it? I'd add ram to low spec computers, but my current one came with one slot and 8GB, no change to it for me.
- formerly_proven 5y ago> I never had computer ram ever fail me, ever in my lifetime, have you? Yes.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoThat sucks, I never once replaced failing ram, just low ram.