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40hz:
Brief but awesome story over at ArsTechnica about a Netware 3.12 fileserver named "INTEL" running on an i386 with two 800Mb Quantum SCSI drives that's been in non-stop service for 16.5 years. From September 23, 1996 to March 28, 2013 - that's one amazing run! Read about it here

A Netware server that's been running non-stop for 16+ years

Just goes to show what drives were capable of when engineered such that capacity (and price) took backseat to reliability. Ah...the good old days! (Sometimes they actually were better.) ;D

Renegade:
Cynical commentThank god all that is a thing of the past!

Now we have engineered obsolescence to help guarantee consumption and employment!

Damn Netware douches! Good riddance! They would have put people out of jobs and ruined the economy! :P

40hz:

-Renegade (April 02, 2013, 08:35 AM)
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There's some truth to that. There was a story of a GE lightbulb that had burned for something like 20 years. It became a minor attraction in the town it was in. When it finally failed, it was returned to GE, who desperately wanted to know why.

The analysis determined that too much tungsten (about 4X) had been applied to the filament inside the bulb due to a random glitch in the manufacturing process. This extra tungsten significantly extended the service life of the bulb.

GE's official conclusion: The bulb burned that long because it was..."defective."



Seems that being defective has little to do with function and everything to do with form. Since the bulb was "out of spec" it was therefor "defective" QED as far as the manufacturing engineers were concerned.
 :-\

Renegade:
"The Lightbulb Conspiracy" ;)

tomos:
I enjoyed this:


-Renegade (April 02, 2013, 08:35 AM)
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There's some truth to that.-40hz (April 02, 2013, 08:53 AM)
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