{"id":1381,"date":"2016-11-26T22:31:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T03:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/brd\/wp\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2021-09-25T12:42:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T16:42:22","slug":"saying-goodbye-to-an-old-but-solid-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/2016\/11\/26\/saying-goodbye-to-an-old-but-solid-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying goodbye to an old but solid server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I researched and installed an HP x510 at a small business back in 2010 just before I was leaving Peace Corps. People I work with now think I&#8217;m crazy when I talk about server-class hardware that could last 5 or more years. I suspect this thing will work for another 6. It had it&#8217;s fair share of dead drives of course, owing much to my previous insistence on 7200RPM even for a glorified NAS. Once I understood the impact from the extra heat I started using the Western Digital RED series. I&#8217;ve set up at least three other servers using those and they haven&#8217;t failed either yet.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped appreciating the excessively aggressive upgrade cycle that has been introduced with smartphones. Replacing hardware every two years isn&#8217;t on my top-ten list of favorite things to do.<\/p>\n<p>This server has now been donated via Freecycle to the tech teacher at a primary school. I can only hope it serves them well too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I researched and installed an HP x510 at a small business back in 2010 just before I was leaving Peace Corps. People I work with now think I&#8217;m crazy when I talk about server-class hardware that could last 5 or more years. I suspect this thing will work for another 6. It had it&#8217;s fair &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}