[Gllug] Cheap rackmount servers

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On 22 Aug 2010, Chris Bell outgrape:

> On Sun 22 Aug, Lucian wrote:
>> Alain, "cheap machine tend not to be as fast or reliable as more
>> expensive machines" - I don't believe you! :)
>
>    It is often the cheaper sleeve bearing fan or the blocked heatsink that
> fails first, ball bearing fans can last longer but are more expensive, while
> it is possible to oil a sleeve bearing fan. Some areas within the UK also
> have very high mains volts which can stress a PSU.

I've had cheap machines arrive with RAM good enough that memtest86
passed them but bad enough that a GCC bootstrap-and-test (my preferred
machine torture mechanism) segfaulted or MCEd more often than not.
(This was not power or CPU cooling: replacing the RAM fixed the
problem.)

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