Most reliable Hardware EVER!

[Trenchent]

I'd have to say in all my experience, although not for performance, the most reliable hardware would be the Trident 9750 Video card, the 3COM 10/100 Nic, and The most compadible sound card for anything but quality..... the Sound Blaster 16

Anyone think otherwise?

 

[Sunner]

Old Sun equipment?
S3x0 bigiron?
My Amiga 600?

 

[grandpanda]

I'd say my old 3.5" sloppy drive It's has been 6 years old, still going strong, hehe.

 

[Serp86]

i have a 10 year old no-brand keyboard - no matter how many times i punched it with frustration (I had a P1 60Mhz up to 2 years ago, so, as you may guess, it happened frequently), how many essays i typed, or how many messages ive sent, its still beating.

I really love the way its keys respond - they kinda need some pressure to start going down, then they go down by themselves, if anyone knows what i mean. When i try to write on a modern keyboard, my typing rate is much reduced because i don't 'feel' the key.

 

[Maximilian]

My olg geforce 2 MMX 32mb. It ran plenty of games that it probably shouldnt have been able too. Its 3 yrs old now possibly 4.

 

[InlineFive]

My 10GB Western Digital hard drive. It's been almost 6 years now and it's still chugging along.

-Por

 

[snidy1]

I have an 8 year old 6 GB WD hard drive that's still working as well as day one.

 

[Ilmater]

I'd have to say that, for its area, the 440BX chipset from Intel is probably the most reliable chipset ever produced.

Maybe that doesn't fall under this topic, but it's still true.

 

[thirdlegstump]

Ibm hard drives

 

[NgtFlyer]

The old original IBM "clicky" keyboards. I type this from one made in 1988. They don't make them like they used to! I consider all of the modern "spongy feel" keyboards a joke. There aren't many that I like at all.

Intel 440BX chipset. Jack of all trades, solid solid solid platform. A real performer for its day and probably the most reliable chipset I've ever worked with. My server continues to run on one today.

Teac floppy drives. Mine's 10 years old, still works like a champ.

Western Digital hard drives. I've seen many run beyond the days of obsolete. I have two 540MBs, a 420MB and various smaller ones that are between 8 and 12 years old, still work perfectly and have zero bad sectors.

Samsung drives seem to be just as robust - hardly ever see them fail.

Fans: NMB and Nidec ball bearing ones seem to run forever. The NMBs are some of the quietest fans made.

and non-PC computers, my old Atari 800 and its associated drives continue to chug right on into their 20s. Great old games on that thing...

 

[robcy]

I have a 1.2gb Quantum and a 2.1gb Seagate in a little web server that are older than ice, and still going whisper quite and strong. They are have been in constant use on no less than 10 different computers during their life. I think they are around or over 10 years old.

 

[Zepper]

Older Plextor SCSI optical drives. I've got a 4220 that's still going strong.
.bh.

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: grandpanda
I'd say my old 3.5" sloppy drive It's has been 6 years old, still going strong, hehe.

my 3.5" floppy drive... it = teh broke.

 

[IdBuRnS]

My 15" Packard Bell monitor. It's 10 years old and still kicking.

 

[Mark R]

Probably the PDP11 used by a research group at university where I studied.

I believe it is still in daily use for data capture/analysis in physiological experiments to this day.

 

[GrumpyMan]

Voodoo Banshee which has been in countless systems and was sold and still going strong. A couple of old Packard Hell P66's which still run fine. And also a couple of old WD harddrives too.

 

[axemanxt40]

Ok I got you all beat...I had until last summer when my house got flooded I had a computer that kinda looks like Strongbad's "Compy". Had no graphical OS, just executed commands from the command line, my uncle gave it to me when I was like 6 with all these really crappy educational games...ahhh good times lol. Anyway, I had that thing for like 13 years and it still worked until I saw it kinda floating through my basement along with my dreamcast and several other old electronics .

 

[axemanxt40]

Originally posted by: IdBuRnS
My 15" Packard Bell monitor. It's 10 years old and still kicking.

LOL, funny I actually had one of those too...it worked until I saw it floating through my basement along with a few other things.

 

[Cerb]

3Com 10Mb hubs, the old heavy ones. My mother's NIC got fried by lightning, as did the neighbor's hub (yes, we're that geeky--we have a LAN to another house), but the hub on this side survived. That's quality. BTW, it was one of the 3Com 905 cards that died

Oh yeah, and Model M.

 

[IdBuRnS]

Originally posted by: axemanxt40
Had no graphical OS, just executed commands from the command line,

I still have one, I wouldn't call it reliable since I haven't touched it in years though.

A Timex Sinclair 1000

I still have it in the original packaging with 5 or 6 cassettes and the monster 16kb memory expansion.

 

[Zarick]

voodoo3 3000. Thing keeps on ticking no matter whose machine I drop it into.

 

[SithSolo1]

My case?

It is a piece of hardware is it not?

In fact I have found few things harder than an Antec case.

 

[Hottie]

-14yrs old panasonic floppy from my 386s day still going strong.
-All the keyboard that I have own, I have never saw a dead PC keyboard yet. On the other hand I have seen plenty of dead Mac keyboard, wonder why.
-10yrs old USR 28.8k external modem, remind me of the good old day I play UO with it all day long.
-10+yrs old Seagate SCSI 1gb HD, still working
-Intel BX board + Cel 333mhz still going till I sold it.
-7 yrs old no name power supply, using it with my AMD XP 2100+ @ 2.2GHZ, no problem.
-10yrs old MS serial mouse in blue. Best mouse I ever own.

 

[CraigRT]

Panasonic floppy drive!

 

[Goi]

Originally posted by: NgtFlyer
The old original IBM "clicky" keyboards. I type this from one made in 1988. They don't make them like they used to! I consider all of the modern "spongy feel" keyboards a joke. There aren't many that I like at all.

Ditto, the IBM Model M outlasts everything else