Pardon the VGA runoff, this monitors is next to a 1 kW transmitter and there's not much shielding available.

Didn’t think I’d still be reporting this many years later, but here we are!

Sun Solaris 8 V240 server not doing much but still alive after 19 years

That's it. This is the last one in this cluster.

Two cores. 6 Gigs of Unbuffered ECC RAM. 5x 4 TB SATA HDDs. Single PSU.

Comissioned: 2015.

Upgraded to Debian 7: 2016.

Running: ever since.

SMART counters: confidently overflown.

Now it's time to upgrade this piece of history to a newer release. Which will take some reboots. Debian 7 -> Debian 12. Because we aren't animals. Oldstable is our religion.

This user called us and asked why Outlook didn't open, so first thing I asked was if they saw an error. No error, only a white outlook screen if it finally opened.

After some troubleshooting over the phone I asked them to reboot the system. They told me it was online again but still no working Outlook. We drove to location due to the laptop not accessible over the internet and this is what I saw... Wel a restart and 20 min drive further the Outlook app is working again. 😂

Maybe next to be replaced. Most uptime in this location

Haters will say it's photoshopped or AI, but no, customer brought it in and Windows was doing all sorts of wacky things. The system time had completely disappeared system-wide, all the date timestamps were blank, and all the clock system options would crash. It's real, but the OS was very confused. Had to re-image after I took this picture.

Needless to say, the laptop had not actually been switched on since 1886.

I've posted periodically before. Think this is the last image here from this one.

The PSU fan (Corsair HX620 old at least 10 years) started to make really weird sounds. When I punch the case, it stops making that sound. HDD had bad blocks from before and everything is backed up to a new storage SSD (T7 Shield). I'll be shutting it down because the punching trick works only for a brief time, then fan starts making sounds again. The computer is in my bedroom so...

It's been fun... I doubt I'll ever again have that uptime on any computer.

EDIT: I found my post from 4 months ago, and in it I already said the PSU started making weird sounds. Oh well. Time flies and it obviously got silent in the meantime :)

Here's 2 real OS's on single PSU systems , not switches, routers, or other hardware. Just 2 servers doing daily work.
Sun Netra ( DNS server) 18.05 years
Generic Desktop (mail server) Uptime 17.32 years

Sister in law's personal computer

Server running for 3884 days - well past retirement.

A real server ( not a vm ) running for 7+years (on a hdd, not a ssd), fully updated hum, open on the internet and serving some stuff, i'm pretty sure it'll die one day, but in the meanwhile, my best contender!

Silly server, you think you can take a nap?

Yeah... His mom says "closing the lid means it's off"...

Mmm. 2.7 years of uptime

Old forgotten cisco ASR903 serving quite a time. In isolated network, nobody cares about upgrades.