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I'd be wary about extrapolating from cars or other vehicles: they expose their components to far more vibration and shocks than is typical in a house or datacen
by jefftk 4y ago
I'd be wary about extrapolating from cars or other vehicles: they expose their components to far more vibration and shocks than is typical in a house or datacenter.
- bayindirh 4y agoAs an HPC system administrator who also works on hardware, I'd say that the servers' life are equally hard from power and temperature perspective. Their life is not easier because they are not vibrating. A server under max load 7/24/365 is really testing its design limits.
- sudosysgen 4y agoSure, but vibration affects solder joints in a way that a server at max load doesn't.
- sangnoir 4y agoCounterpoint: cars don't get their cables moved about so often, or bent at sharp angles for aesthetic reasons. Soldering without additional strain relief is a terrible idea - even for low currents.
- LegitShady 4y agocar cables move all the time when cars are driving.
- sangnoir 4y agoI never said they don't - rereading, I should have used the word "manipulated", because I meant "moved (by a person)": a PC[1] gets opened more frequently often than a car hood. 1. Especially a pc with an RTX 40X0 card - because only enthusiasts are buying them at this point.
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