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Yeah, i wish that was the situation with AMD having similarly spec'ed alternatives.
I'd definitely support underdogs, we don't need monopoly on the CPU side and with vendors like AMD giving competition will come us consumers to an advantage (more options/better prices).
I'd definitely support underdogs, we don't need monopoly on the CPU side and with vendors like AMD giving competition will come us consumers to an advantage (more options/better prices).
Who is to say how "small" it is when intel is playing so heavy handed with this NDA horseshit. I'm sure the guys that make your car would rather not do all those little recalls because only a "small" number actually have a problem, thankfully that industry has to play by some basic rules.
Silicon errata are always fun ... and how things get handled are always different case by case. In this instance, outside looking in, I'd guess that there is a long term reliability degradation on a clock synthesizer/generator, probably part of the SoC. The things that influence degradation over time can range all over the place, including environmental factors (i.e. air quality, but that typically influences PCB type of failures) as well as thermal conditions. Voltage levels are another area that heavily influences long term reliability. I am concerned about thermals being the key influence, especially with my passive heat sink Rangely based Netgate box.
I have a Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Atom Boards | A1SRM-2758F based system. Does it mean it will DEFINITELY die after 18 months' usage?
Welp no atom for me. If I was getting one it'd be the next gen ones without this bug assuming they fix it in the next gen
This is in the main site post but we have 22x C2000 deployed and the newest has been going for 20 months. Oldest over 40 and zero failures.
Thanks! I will change to Xeon-D for the next build. I know this is off-topic but which Xeon-D has the best C/P at the moment? Say like US$200-300 range for MB+CPU. Thanks again!
Anyone who has a bunch of C2xxx deployed for more than 18 or 36 months that aren't dead yet. It's obvious that the problem does not result in certain death after N months, it just makes the failure rate higher than expected. Did you buy the hardware with the guarantee that the failure rate would be 0%? If not, then it's unreasonable to expect total replacement because the failure rate is some non-zero value that's more than the original non-zero value. What is reasonable is probably some somewhat increased warranty time for devices that fail due to the bug, but what constitutes a reasonable time will be a big fight. And that increased warranty time is to make everyone involved look
I'm not aware of any basic rules for how long a computer chip is supposed to last. The manufacturers probably have contract terms on the failure rates, but the customers don't. In cars there are laws/regulations concerning things like emissions requirements (if a model doesn't meet certain requirements it has to be fixed, period) and other issues are life-safety critical. If someone has a life-safety critical system that depends on the total reliability of a single c2xxx processor, they probably have a much bigger problem than this. Think about the bad capacitor problem a few years back: if you had enterprise gear under warranty it got fixed; if you had consumer gear not under warranty, you got new consumer gear when the caps finally died. The key here is whether you're paying someone to ensure that you get new gear when it breaks, and it's that person who can recover damages if the failure rate on the equipment is higher than specified by the manufacture.
Of course, if you're buying direct from intel and you have a contract specifying a failure rate then the above doesn't apply--but most people buying for home labs aren't spending that kind of money.
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We've got a bunch and they've been running non-stop for years. There's some old C2758 FreeBSD ZFS backup server pair that a coworker setup 2 years ago. They're at 649 days uptime.
I'm reading this right, after 18 or 36 months higher than normal failure rate. For most of our gear we start looking at replacements around 36 months anyway.
I'm reading many of these comments elsewhere and people clearly don't get how this works. I'm also reading many comments elsewhere by kids with gaming rigs who clearly don't own this gear and don't deal with DC gear. Stuff fails all the time. We're just going to start to look for C3000 options a few months earlier and rotate them in, using retired C2000 to fill the void as short term spares.
I'm reading this right, after 18 or 36 months higher than normal failure rate. For most of our gear we start looking at replacements around 36 months anyway.
I'm reading many of these comments elsewhere and people clearly don't get how this works. I'm also reading many comments elsewhere by kids with gaming rigs who clearly don't own this gear and don't deal with DC gear. Stuff fails all the time. We're just going to start to look for C3000 options a few months earlier and rotate them in, using retired C2000 to fill the void as short term spares.
Do we know if there's going to be a full C3000 lineup? there was only one chip I saw so far
Depends on how much money they lose on the C2xxx and whether they're willing to try again.
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The real question is when people start dumping the C2xxx will we be able to buy them dirt cheap and send them in for a 'free' repair still and build-out some dirt cheap storage systems, firewalls, etc...
I'd gladly pickup a handful for dirt cheap and wait through the repair cycle
I could use a couple firewalls right now for dirt!
and build-out some dirt cheap storage systems, firewalls, etc... I'd gladly pickup a handful for dirt cheap and wait through the repair cycle
I could use a couple firewalls right now for dirt!
I know yo probably can't tell much but will people be happy ? I am already happy to see 64gb ddr4 support
My thoughts on lifetime of components , Chip lifetime I would expect is 7 years, that's how I have seen the extended availability cpu's marketed at least unofficial.
7 years availability with 7 years life.
But keep in mind you don't see many extended life main boards with the special power delivery components so in normal life I would say 5 years since that's typical the longest vendor warranty support at purchase date.
7 years availability with 7 years life.
But keep in mind you don't see many extended life main boards with the special power delivery components so in normal life I would say 5 years since that's typical the longest vendor warranty support at purchase date.
I wonder if there's a way to tie failing nodes by week of manufacturing so we could find which weeks to avoid. But it seems like it's unlikely to fail for us