I think Best Buy has them on sale at $7.99 for the 16gb. About 2 or 3 years ago I tried a no name cheapie I bought for $3.99. It lasted about 6 weeks and went belly up. Not a real big loss.
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Some do, just because of the heat the systems produce and how much electricity they are using. There is no use running the air conditioner cooling down the place and then running some systems to heat it up at the same time. If you are only running one system it would probably not make much difference, but if you are running several, it does make a difference. The extra heat is welcome in the winter, but not so in the summer.
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Wonder if people in the southern hemisphere do the same by the seasons. It would balance thing out.

If you look here you can see how all the team members stack up, past and present.
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Two of my servers were down. My Dell T7400 started to go into random restarts all on its own. When it does this, the BIOS requires a manual intervention to continue. I haven't yet figured out how to bypass this. So, if it restarts, it just sits there until I check it again. I reduced it to 2 cores and it stopped resetting so I thought it might be a heating problem. I took it down and blew it out, but there was hardly any dust in it or in the heat sinks. I did clean off all the old thermal paste and apply new thermal paste before reseating the heat sinks. So far I have been able to run it on all 8 cores again. We'll see if it hold up over night.
My Dell 2950 now refuses to boot at all, so it may have finally given up the ghost. It does not even get through the initial BIOS screen. I will tackle that beast tomorrow or Friday. It is not really too efficient, so I may just retire it and call it good. It has given me over 20 run time years and over 45000 results so I should not complain too much.
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