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In individual can not influence this at least not without a significant amount of money. The individual non-serviceable components on each circuit board in the
by LinuxBender 4y ago
In individual can not influence this at least not without a significant amount of money. The individual non-serviceable components on each circuit board in the server would need to be over-engineered to operate at full duty cycle for {n} years, meaning one could not use mass produced components. Those components would then need to be protected against all forms of EMF. Two examples of such engineering would be Voyager I and Voyager II. They were designed exactly in this manor. Aside from their nuclear batteries which should be mostly depleted by now the rest of the components should be good for long after they lose power. Cables and fasteners would also need to be engineered to last and have redundant contacts on every connection.
The components used in commodity servers utilize components that not only have a chance to fail but there are data sheets that predict when each component will fail based on the applied voltages, currents and temperatures. There are/were programs that could predict how long a device would last based on the component specs but I forgot what it was called. Something like OrCAD I believe. No idea if that still exists. I could not afford the license at the time 1990's.
Some people may have anecdotes of servers with 30+ year uptimes and that is certainly a thing, but that is entirely luck of the batch and luck of the environment and not in any way predictable. And this is just hardware. This doesn't even touch on aspects of BIOS/Firmware/Driver/Operating system fault handling and stability.