alt Hacker Newsin actual datacenters you often don't even bother swapping parts and just let things die in place until you replace whole racks
in actual datacenters you often don't even bother swapping parts and just let things die in place until you replace whole racks
Not my experience at a hyperscaler, at least a while back. It definitely made financial sense to swap a small part to get a ~50-100k$ server's capacity back online.