How LONG has your BI machine been running?

[sdkid]

I decided to change the daily re-boot time of my BI machine, and I realized that I have been using this one a LONG time.

With the exception of some very occasional downtime to add a new drive or something like that, My BI machine has been in continuous use since July of 2015...
It's a 4th Gen I-5 Dell Inspiron tower.



I have 7 cams on it... one more waiting to be installed. BI runs cool using 4% to 12% of CPU.... usually around 6 or 7%, and I really don't have to mess with it very much.

 

[Flintstone61]

Thats a mighty long time.
Im running a 4th gen i5 on Optiplex 9020 as my home machine with 9 cams on Blue iris. Blue Iris is backing up the XVR and gives me the control and convenience of BI over dealing with the XVR's gawdawful interfarce.
uptime has been about 30 days LOL

 

[sebastiantombs]

The current iteration of my BI machine has been running 24/7 since 2019. The only down time is when I make a modification, add drives, or clean it out and that's usually twice a year.

i7-6700K in a Corsair Obsidian case.

 

[wittaj]

 

[MrRobinHood]

Nearly an entire 3 hours

I only really started playing with it this evening on my daily PC. Still got to put all the bits together for the dedicated machine.

 

[sdkid]

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Nearly an entire 3 hours

I only really started playing with it this evening on my daily PC. Still got to put all the bits together for the dedicated machine.

Hahahaha---- technically my "uptime" is only 23 hours and 58 minutes every day...

Does anyone else do a scheduled restart of their machine at a given interval?

 

[TVille]

My remote BI has been ruining since July 2013. it's rebooted nightly, but no other downtime. Only equipment changes had been the addition of a hard drive many years ago.

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[sdkid]

My remote BI has been ruining since July 2013. it's rebooted nightly, but no other downtime. Only equipment changes had been the addition of a head drive many years ago.

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Ya got me beat by 2 years!

 

[Old Timer]

Present PC, 8-28-18, rebooted monthly. Probably time to rebuild with a new copy of win 10, but I am lazy.

PC before that was original win 7 that I started on BI version 3, way back there!

 

[Mike A.]

Not that long for mine. Couple of years. Prior server crapped out with a bad power supply after about 3-4 years.

Longest thing that I've ever had running was an old Axis network print server at an office where I worked. One of the best little pieces of hardware that I've ever bought. Set it up once, never any problems, just let it run and pretty much forgot about it. Looked one day and it had been up for 12 years!

 

[sebastiantombs]

We had an old x86 machine at work that had some files on it for a project that HAD to be available at any time for something like 30 years according to the contract. I left that job in 2002 and it was still running fine. It was a stock desktop case with I don't know whose motherboard and power supply, but it was always in an environmentally controlled environment. The only time I know of that it was shut down was when we moved it, physically, from North Jersey to Princeton. Then, it was only down for about six or eight hours.

 

[eeeeesh]

I built a home server in Nov of 2014 using SuperMicro motherboard, chassis, etc. It was still running fine in Feb 2021(a little over 6 years) but I ended up replacing it because it was a power hog - over 200 watts 24/7 adds up. Now I am using a mini atx system (i5-10600) which draws about 30 watts along with a Synology NAS that is around 60 watts, so I cut the power usage in half and have a faster system to boot. The Super Micro was running ESXI and everything was virtualized, now Blue Iris is running in Windows 11 and I still run a couple of virtual machines in VMWare Workstation