My Debian home server turns 10, today. It has had no upgrades, and no hardware replacements. Not even a hard drive has died. It runs all of my smart home, records/transcodes/streams my TV and movies as high as 4K, orchestrates my backups, manages my downloads, runs the local VPN, serves a bunch of samba shares, and much more. I'm curious to know how long I can make it go with absolutely zero fixes or upgrades.
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my Ryzen with ECC RAM FreeBSD colo: Jan 14 2017
however, I did have mirrored NVMEs for the root filesystem and one was from a weird brand which flaked out and died. The other is a Samsung, still trucking along and I abused these with a *lot* of writes. Hundreds of terabytes, possibly 1PB+.
But the rest of it is running great, no need to touch the hardware. Super good investment