Hi all....first post...good to be here. I'm male, 33 years of age, from the UK. I've always loved servers and computers.
Had 2 hardware failiures recently, both on my servers. My supermicro box at OVH running windows had it's motherboard fail at the end of last year. Second mirrored drive went first, OVH replaced it. I rebuilt it's mirror...but still had issues. OVH checked it again, and ended up replacing the motherboard. I updated the MAC address in windows according to their instructions, and it was back online. That same machine has been nearly entirely replaced over the 3 years i've had it (2 motherboards, several harddrives, memory, the power supply more than once...all with no data loss though...thank god for mirrored drives)
My second supermicro box at online.net (also running windows) had some sort of failiure at the beginning of this year. I'm unsure what was wrong (possibly the mobo), but they replaced that machine (a blade in a supermicro microcloud) entirely.
Fortunately no important data was lost in either case. The online.net box was a complete loss, but I had local backups of that one.
Had 2 hardware failiures recently, both on my servers. My supermicro box at OVH running windows had it's motherboard fail at the end of last year. Second mirrored drive went first, OVH replaced it. I rebuilt it's mirror...but still had issues. OVH checked it again, and ended up replacing the motherboard. I updated the MAC address in windows according to their instructions, and it was back online. That same machine has been nearly entirely replaced over the 3 years i've had it (2 motherboards, several harddrives, memory, the power supply more than once...all with no data loss though...thank god for mirrored drives)
My second supermicro box at online.net (also running windows) had some sort of failiure at the beginning of this year. I'm unsure what was wrong (possibly the mobo), but they replaced that machine (a blade in a supermicro microcloud) entirely.
Fortunately no important data was lost in either case. The online.net box was a complete loss, but I had local backups of that one.
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