Another dead power supply

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Dec 6 19:47:14 UTC 2005


On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:37:40PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> 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.

Not when you are a home user it doesn't.  Then it just wastes time you
could have spent playing games. :)

Lennart Sorensen
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