Catestrophic failure

[Michael Hipp]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> This morning I can into work where I leave this guy running, and the
> machine is nonresponsive and the hard drive light is on solid.
> I can ping it, but SSH to it hangs for as long as I leave it.

My money is on hardware, in this order:

  1. Hard drive
  2. Memory
  3. Hard drive cable
  4. PSU
  5. CPU cooler
  6. Hard drive controller
  7. PCI device
  8. Mobo

This is definitely not a box to trust with anything remotely important.

Michael