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> I amortized servers with an average server lifetime of 3 years That's a mistake.

• eb0la 4y ago
  Why? after amortization they have 0 value in you books, which means your assets don't sink your balance sheet.
  • goodpoint 4y ago
    To calculate a meaningful yearly TCO you have to consider the real useful life of servers which is far longer than 3 years.
  • fanf2 4y ago
    The lifetime of a server is at least 5 years, which is the typical warranty length for server kit.
• xfitm3 4y ago
  We used SuperMicro servers and their TCO increased substantially after an average of 36 months. Keep in mind there are environmental issues such as CRAC failures, power stability, back EMF, etc which all harm components. It's very difficult to quantify the server lifetime, you need to be conservative in financial planning and that ended up with a median lifetime of 36MO. You can get deeper into the weeds and look at Zinc Whiskers and such but that's a niche you just have to generalize.