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Originally Posted by Graham M
OK fair enough, still a relatively long day to be spent on so-called "Cheap & Nasty PSUs"
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It is, and sort of backs up my point. We make heavy use of PCs, still have a relatively low failure rate.
It's worth noting, however, that the bulk of these machines are lab machines, and while we do allow students to store stuff on them, we expect them to back up anything they need to keep, and do not store anything we need on those machines. As such, it does not affect us if the information on the machine is lost.
Staff machines are a different matter, and these do often come with good quality power supplies.
As for the the servers, these also come with good quality PSUs (generally including redundant PSUs as well) and are backed up regularly.