On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:40:22PM +0200, Stefan Hoffmeister wrote:
: On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 08:16:30 +0200, Reckhard, Tobias wrote:
9 months * 30 days/month * 24 hrs/day = 6480 hrs. I don't know what MTBFs appliance vendors usually claim, but 9 months isn't really a lot in my book.
No, and I was hoping for more out of that notebook :-( This is no criticism or anything like that. It's only intended to be a little hint (and believe me, I know what I'm talking about... ;)
Did you consider what this kind of hardware is made for? Notebooks aren't made for continous operation. They don't have that cooling fans and so on. Not even some desktop boxes are optimal for this operation conditions. They are getting much too warm for permanent operation, often hard disks fail due to overheating. Some CPU coolers get stuck because of oil aging, dust in combination of high temperature and the environmental air pollutions. So bearings get stuck, temperature is rising and the collapse is perfect. Therefore it's much better to coose some old 486board in at least a miditower with big but low frequency operating cooler. This combination is best for permanent operating. -- Gruß, Wolfgang ------------------------------------------------------------ Wolfgang Wilde, Ampr: dg7nef.ampr.org Austrasse 96 44.130.62.20 -o) 90429 Nuremberg, Email: wwilde@uumail.de /\\ Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/ _\_v ------------------------------------------------------------