Another dead power supply

[William Park]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:49:12PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> How many $s is a stable system worth to you?  I have seen systems that
> would crash randomly and corrupt the filesystem once in a while, which
> in the end were fixed by replacing the power supply.  So while the power
> supply was "working" (it was delivering power) it wasn't working very
> well and was wasting a lot of time on reinstalls to fix the damage it
> was causing.

Not wasted.  It provided jobs for sysadmins.

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