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While the comic is obviously exaggerating, there are situations where this could make a certain amount of sense. IF you can design a server so that most or all of the components reach end-of-life at about the same time, then if a hard drive fails on one server, every other component of that server is likely to fail soon as well. | While the comic is obviously exaggerating, there are situations where this could make a certain amount of sense. IF you can design a server so that most or all of the components reach end-of-life at about the same time, then if a hard drive fails on one server, every other component of that server is likely to fail soon as well. | ||
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in real life, it's very hard to build a server that will reliably degrade on schedule.... but with the right tradeoffs, and enough long-term performance data, it might eventually become possible to do so. | in real life, it's very hard to build a server that will reliably degrade on schedule.... but with the right tradeoffs, and enough long-term performance data, it might eventually become possible to do so. | ||
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.101|162.158.74.101]] 04:48, 23 September 2016 (UTC) | [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.101|162.158.74.101]] 04:48, 23 September 2016 (UTC) | ||
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The title text is referring to [http://multivax.com/last_question.html The Last Question by Isaac Asimov]. | The title text is referring to [http://multivax.com/last_question.html The Last Question by Isaac Asimov]. | ||
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::It's clearly not [[Science Girl]], because, as the linked page says "She became the first child to have its own character category. She is distinguished by being clearly a girl (compared to adults around her or her behavior)". You may create a page called "Datacenter Woman". [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.139|108.162.221.139]] 14:35, 23 September 2016 (UTC) | ::It's clearly not [[Science Girl]], because, as the linked page says "She became the first child to have its own character category. She is distinguished by being clearly a girl (compared to adults around her or her behavior)". You may create a page called "Datacenter Woman". [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.139|108.162.221.139]] 14:35, 23 September 2016 (UTC) | ||
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There's no need to refer to blade servers in the explanation. You can fit many "normal" servers into a 19 inch rack. It could just say: | There's no need to refer to blade servers in the explanation. You can fit many "normal" servers into a 19 inch rack. It could just say: | ||
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[[Special:Contributions/162.158.83.66|162.158.83.66]] 14:51, 23 September 2016 (UTC) | [[Special:Contributions/162.158.83.66|162.158.83.66]] 14:51, 23 September 2016 (UTC) | ||
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