How does computer maintenance relate to life expectancy?
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 by admin
Trying to prove that by cleaning a computer, it will save a company (????) amount of money by expanding the life expectancy of a computer. Are there any statistic’s for that??
85% of computer failure is user error/ maintenance related. I literally just learned this last night in my senior level Computer Architecture class at Virgina Tech. let me see if i can find a source.
**EDIT** Its seems my memory lapsed. it says over 5 year 95% of costs are maintenance. I do not know where the study is from but i found a link to slides that match the ones my class is taught from. ill keep looking for the external source
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/classes/hmc.cs136.200901/slides/class13_storage.ppt
slide 33
December 2nd, 2009 at 1:07 pm
85% of computer failure is user error/ maintenance related. I literally just learned this last night in my senior level Computer Architecture class at Virgina Tech. let me see if i can find a source.
**EDIT** Its seems my memory lapsed. it says over 5 year 95% of costs are maintenance. I do not know where the study is from but i found a link to slides that match the ones my class is taught from. ill keep looking for the external source
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/classes/hmc.cs136.200901/slides/class13_storage.ppt
slide 33
References :
December 2nd, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Hello,
Yes, by having maintenance done will increase the service life of a workstation/server.
Example: Regardless of the installed OS, "blowing out" the power supply, cooling system, and case will keep the system temperatures low. Heat is the biggest problem for any system.
Windows (workstation) : Uninstall non-essential software, run system cleanup to delete files from browser history/temp files/empty "trash can" and etc. Then defrag. Keep av/spy/mal-ware updated. Only apply service packs/patches only if required ("if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it…").
References :
Disk Clean Up as Maintenance @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_Cleanup