> From: Michael L Gueterman <[log in to unmask]>
>
> >  I remember my days (actually years, but time compresses things) with
> >multiple Series 70's that ate power supplies about as fast as my wife's
> >old Ford Fiesta ate water pumps (if you ever owned a Fiesta, you know
> >that this was a rather frequent occurrence)!

We had a power supply for our 3-bay series 70 fail during Fall Registration 6
or 7 years ago, but the 2nd power supply kept it going until we had a
convenient time to shut down and the one the failed was from a bay we purchased
used (an upgraded 68, I think?). The only other hardware failures was a ATP
board (and only 1 software abort) on that machine during it's lifetime here (4
years?).  We've now had a 967 for 6 years with not a single hardware problem,
excepting the darn DDS drives, and only 2 software o.s. aborts!

On the other hand, we've had 3 HP Netservers (2 LM and 1 LF) for 4 years and
have had to replace disks (hot swap version), motherboards, memory, disk
controllers, and the DDS drives at one time or another in 2 of the 3 machines,
and a dozen or more software o.s. aborts (Netware 4.x).

We have 1 newer Netserver running NT less than 6 months and it has had memory
(maybe motherboard? - this seems to be the method of handling the "unknown
origin" machine hang when diagnostics pass everything) replaced and a number of
software problems (even though it is only doing minor stuff - like serving
DHCP).

We've had a HP9000K400 for 2 years with no hardware problems (let's just leave
aside the software o.s. - except to say I reboot nightly and often wish I could
do it twice daily.)

All of the above is pure HP hardware.

I'll take the 3000 any day!

Richard Gambrell ([log in to unmask])