ARM Server Long Term Reliability - What's Your Experience?
One of the concerns I had when I converted from my power-hungry-but-bulletproof Sparc servers to these small Arm boxes was how reliable the hardware would be over time. Here's my personal experience...
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Very similar: Dockstar even had a power-hungry DVB-T stick and 4-in-1 hub on it but worked well 24/7 for half a decade. Sometimes it would need a few cycles to launch from USB after power outages, but...
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I have a farm of about 20 plugs :) some located remotely, 2 off-line. They come online at various time in the last 4 years. None ever failed (majority has Ext3 USB rootfs), but a single instance with...
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Just think, a farm of 20 plugs is 100 watts, has CPU value of 24,000 and over 5 Gigs RAM! I knew this was going to be a strange day...
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TEN Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Very similar: Dockstar even had a power-hungry > DVB-T stick and 4-in-1 hub on it but worked well > 24/7 for half a...
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bodhi Wrote: > TEN Wrote: > > Very similar: Dockstar [s]ometimes ... would need > > a few cycles to launch from USB after power outages, > but I understand that was a function of...
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TEN, > Well, in these cases it did fall back into stock - > which is appreciated for this reason as it tells > how much alive the machine still is. > How's Jeff running fsck on boot? I...
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bodhi wrote: > TEN wrote: > > Well, in these cases it did fall back into stock > > How's Jeff running fsck on boot? I thought some > > versions of his uBoot were just alternating...
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TEN, > Speaking of which, though unlikely in spite of > negotiable USB current, is there by any chance a > way to completely cut & re-enable power to one > particular port in software...
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bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > TEN, > > > Speaking of which, though unlikely in spite of > > negotiable USB current, is there by any chance...
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bodhi Wrote: > > > though unlikely in spite of negotiable USB current, is there by any chance a way to > > > completely cut & re-enable power to one particular port in software...
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TEN, > Speaking of GPIO pins, do you see a way to use > them (or the internal serial port if you happen to > have one wired up) for > http://lirc.org/receivers.html & >...
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bodhi Wrote: > > Speaking of GPIO pins, do you see a way to use > > them (or the internal serial port if you happen > to > > have one wired up) for > >...
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> Cf. section "The hardware:" at > http://aron.ws/projects/lirc_rpi/ as well as his > info on assigning an IRQ for the pin. OK then it is well documented, so most definitely possible through...
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bodhi Wrote: > > > Speaking of which, though unlikely in spite of > > > negotiable USB current, is there by any chance > > a way to completely cut & re-enable power to >...
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Just in terms of reliability, I've had my E02 and my Goflex Net being in use from about 2012 - the GFN almost continuously. Unlike the main goal of this forum, I stuck with the stock system and used...
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I got two dockstars in Oct 2010, both have been operating flawlessly since then. One acts as a home server, providing: Exim, Samba, mediatomb, ftp, http, and tftp. The rootfs is on a flash drive...
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