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The older XboXes have been quite reliable...

The older XboXes have been quite reliable...

Posted Jun 9, 2005 14:40 UTC (Thu) by mchristensen (guest, #4955)
In reply to: The older XboXes have been quite reliable... by leonbrooks
Parent article: Yellow Dog Linux sticks with PowerPC

But the MBTF for laptop hard drives is not good, especially when they are run constantly, which makes them less than ideal for most server configurations.

However, if you keep up-to date backups and can handle regular (say anual) bare metal restores this this may not be a problem for you.


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