RE: Virtually Amazing: Playing with my new server

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I mean mechanical hard drives shouldn't fail just because of a power failure. Unless the drive was just one power cycle away from a failure anyway. Or there was an associated power surge (but that could affect a lot more than the drives).

I think the biggest limitation for the number of VMs you can run has been the amount of memory you have for a long time now. But with 128GB you should be able to run a bunch. Not all that many years ago when limited to a 32-bit OS and 4GB of RAM it was a lot more limiting. But so much has changed since then.



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I looked at the server again. It came with 256GB of RAM. My bad :) I'm pretty sure what happened is the disk was spinning when the power failed. The two drives plattered and then started throwing errors. I was in the server room earlier that week and I took a picture and all of my drives were green, so it was either the hard shutdown or they were close or a combination of the two. I'd probably lean towards a combination of the two.

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