average life of a server machine?

Hi, all,

Please allow me to ask a very basic question. I am wondering how long is the
average life of a server machine which is running 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week. I did some research on the web, it seem no one provided such a
statistics yet. Thanks.

Gary
Wed Apr 27 16:24:01 CDT 2005

I've never had one actually die, but I've noticed that after 4 years, odd
stuff begins to happen. I replace servers every five years.

GaryK

"John Z" <JohnZ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, all,
>
> Please allow me to ask a very basic question. I am wondering how long is
> the
> average life of a server machine which is running 24 hours a day, 7 days a
> week. I did some research on the web, it seem no one provided such a
> statistics yet. Thanks.

Mariette
Wed Apr 27 16:44:44 CDT 2005

In news:59B75B18-EEF4-4A33-ACE2-F2389AC4F494@microsoft.com,
John Z <JohnZ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Please allow me to ask a very basic question. I am wondering how long
> is the average life of a server machine which is running 24 hours a
> day, 7 days a week. I did some research on the web, it seem no one
> provided such a statistics yet. Thanks.

I have one customer that runs a server already for 10 years :-) It still
runs and the customer does not want to upgrade because he thinks it does
what it supposed to do.

Oh well...

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SuperGumby
Wed Apr 27 16:56:00 CDT 2005

yeah, I think most people would say 3-5yrs. Funnily I'd not say because
things start going wrong but more due to the march of progress.

Where will we be in 3yrs? Heck, that's SBS Longhorn timeframe. I don't think
the old VP6 board I use for the LoungeAN SBS will cut that mustard, she's
been retired from a more demanding role (running a company) but never
hiccuped on me.

"Gary Karasik" <gkarasik@fea.net> wrote in message
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> I've never had one actually die, but I've noticed that after 4 years, odd
> stuff begins to happen. I replace servers every five years.
>
> GaryK
>
> "John Z" <JohnZ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:59B75B18-EEF4-4A33-ACE2-F2389AC4F494@microsoft.com...
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> Please allow me to ask a very basic question. I am wondering how long is
>> the
>> average life of a server machine which is running 24 hours a day, 7 days
>> a
>> week. I did some research on the web, it seem no one provided such a
>> statistics yet. Thanks.
>
>

JohnZ
Wed Apr 27 17:45:33 CDT 2005

Thank you very much for the responses, Gary, SuperGumby and Mariette. Now I
got some ideas when I probably should consider replacing the server machne.
This is actually important because sooner or later we have to replace the old
server machine.

"Mariette Knap [SBS MVP]" wrote:

> In news:59B75B18-EEF4-4A33-ACE2-F2389AC4F494@microsoft.com,
> John Z <JohnZ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > Please allow me to ask a very basic question. I am wondering how long
> > is the average life of a server machine which is running 24 hours a
> > day, 7 days a week. I did some research on the web, it seem no one
> > provided such a statistics yet. Thanks.
>
> I have one customer that runs a server already for 10 years :-) It still
> runs and the customer does not want to upgrade because he thinks it does
> what it supposed to do.
>
> Oh well...
>
> --
> Mariëtte Knap - MVP
> http://www.smallbizserver.net
> Take part in SBS forum:
> http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=53
>
>
>

Víctor
Mon May 09 14:29:11 CDT 2005

I had a Micron machine that ran as a server for almost 8 years. First it
used NT 3.51, then NT 4.0 and finally it was upgraded to Windows 2000 SBS.
It was later turned into a workstatin and is still working just fine.

VC

"John Z" <JohnZ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:59B75B18-EEF4-4A33-ACE2-F2389AC4F494@microsoft.com...
> Hi, all,
>
> Please allow me to ask a very basic question. I am wondering how long is
the
> average life of a server machine which is running 24 hours a day, 7 days a
> week. I did some research on the web, it seem no one provided such a
> statistics yet. Thanks.