Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Jay1000:

It crashed in the middle of December 2006. It corupted the disks so bad, they had to be reloaded from scratch. A complete rebuild to disk was necessary and that took all day. It was in place since April, 2006 or about 8 months. That is a data corruption crash. Not a simple disk, controller, memory or CPU failure, but corruption of data and loss of about half a day of it (from the nightly data backup). The latter two scares any IT department. Since it wasn't a mission critical server, it was allowed another chance. If it dies again the same way, no Conroe based server will be allowed here. Its too much of a chance to allow.

12 hours of data in a mission critical server is worth $12+ million in some shops. A corrupting server just isn't worth any increase in performance against that.

A crash that just needs a reboot, with a loss of a minute of data, at most, is bad, but nowhere near the above. For the crashed server's place, a reboot would cause no loss of data and a short work delay (2 minutes and 31 seconds after last software update). Why do you think Microsoft's Windows 2003 Advanced Server OS would be tolerated otherwise?

Pete