Subj : Re: about your old hardware not surviving another X years
To   : August Abolins
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Mon Jan 03 2022 21:47:33

Hi August,

On 2022-01-03 14:06:00, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> But regarding "break down" I was thinking more about your
 WvV>> old hardware not surviving another X years...

 AA> Ah, yes. There's that other niggly thing.

 AA> I was well into my first year of ownership of my shop (now 10
 AA> years as of Jan 12, 2012), when the main office pc that was
 AA> operating as a file server to the network wouldn't boot up one
 AA> morning!  It was a Dell. I assumed it was the infamous on/off
 AA> switch issue. Opening the case, and testing the switch contacts
 AA> eliminated that issue. Something on the mobo was most likely
 AA> the issue.  It was a bit of a mad scramble to steer the
 AA> fileserver fuction to another DT pc.  I didn't have time to
 AA> investigate further electronic causes. But I moved the HDD to
 AA> an external USB case and continued to access the files (or at
 AA> least copy the main ones) that way on yet another pc that was
 AA> connected on the network.

 AA> About a year later, that latter pc (a small compact/slim DT
 AA> model) wouldn't boot up consistently either! (Arghhh! Here we
 AA> go again.) I replaced that one with my Lenovo 3000. So far, so
 AA> good.

As long as you have backups that are not too old, and which are tested to work... ;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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