Re: Is a server really needed?

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In article <1181709275.375872.61910@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
njemtcan-njem@xxxxxxxxx says...
Even on low end systems disk and
power supply failures are rare enough, and often come with warnings,
and the data (if it's just serving data and not acting as a server)
can be offered from anyplace else.

Actually, most desktop computers are build with the minimum power
supply, the minimum level of motherboard, the cheapest OEM hard drives,
and don't often have a UPS and they are used daily by users.

A server will have higher-end power supply(s), will have a better
quality motherboard, will have business class drives - even if they are
SATA drives they would have the 5 year warranty instead of the cheap 1
year warranty for residential use, and a server is always going to
include a UPS if setup by a IT person. The last benefit is that since
the users don't log onto the server to do their daily work, they don't
have the same level of corruption, same opportunity to "catch" something
on the server, and don't have the same chance to impact other users.

In the last year we've replaced about 25 drives of all types, most of
them were in workstations. We've replaced about 15 power supply's in
workstations because they typically sit on the floor, get dusty,
bearings wear more since they are cheaper PSU. We've replaced a few
CD/DVD drives because people broke them.

In the case of drives, in the workstations we just ghosted an image back
to the new drive and the workstation was online in less than an hour.
Since the servers all have raid controllers there was no downtime and
the users didn't know there was a drive fault.

I guess the point is that with workstations you have a significantly
higher margin for failures and corruption.

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