* Posts by one-of-many

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Server retired after 18 years and ten months – beat that, readers!

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Re: Power Supply Work

Each rack had its own UPS.

The entire server room had an autostart generator and transfer switch.

Generator was tested monthly, but was only ever needed about 5 times.

UPS batteries were hot-swapped, and on the rare occasion we replaced a UPS, we used suicide leads to bypass it during the process.

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Re: The drive's a Seagate...

"The media used on the drive has a diameter of approximately 95 mm"

That's about 15,966,810 km at the periphery.

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Re: Not surprising

At the time of construction, we used large, 24V case style fans with proper bearings, but running on the 12V rail. These ran slowly and quietly, yet moved plenty of air. The clean conditions probably helped

them survive. All the fans were still running at the time it was switched off.