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How often is your IT team replacing older devices?

@Intel_Corporation ​

#IamIntel

Do you have older devices?
  • 1-3 years
  • 4-6 years
  • Tell us below
  • 7+
  • End of Warranty
  • When it eventually fails
  • EOL
  • 5 Year Tech Cycle
  • When it no longer serves a useful function
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We spent the Summer of 2022 finishing off the upgrades of any endpoints not Intel 8th gen / TPM 2.0 capable or better. The interns did a great job, and my team leveraged the threat of Win10 EOS to get the die-hards off their favorite old machines.

It’s a hard sell when someone has an EliteBook 840 G3 that works PERFECTLY for their use, they like it, they’re used to it - but it’s gotta go, people!

We have so many 9-10-11-12-13 gen machines now, it’s still a surprise to realize the 8th gen with the double core count jump was the great leap forward in mobile performance. It’s also a “buy once, cry once” reminder that quality business hardware will last a lot longer than consumer grade gear. The vPro sticker is a good mark of “industrial grade” hardware for us.

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Why is 1-3 years even listed? I don’t know anyone that changes their devices that frequently.

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We have some computers deployed and in use that are 10 years old, running the latest windows 10, and performing just fine (after an SSD + RAM upgrade) for what they are used for. We plan on replacing them by the Win10 EOL date though. If it ain’t broke… Oddly enough, they are all desktops - older gen laptops are a lot quicker to get replaced.

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not so much. Last hospital I worked at leased their equipment. desktops every 4, laptops every 2. Just a way to write off the devices faster as laptops usually took a lot more of a beating. And they wonder why they are in debt so bad.

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You guys replace your devices?

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We do, for some devices, if the warranty ends in 3 years. We have some situations where we cant afford to have any equipment fail so those scenarios we keep things current in terms of warranty. Sometimes we will extend the warranty but that option is not always available.

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3 - 4 years both Servers and Workstations

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The job I’m at didn’t replace anything unless it was flat broke. We’ve still got desktops with HDDs in them. I was very surprised to find those in production. We’re cycling those out now with their replacements set to last at least 3 years, hoping for 5. We’re upgrading laptops too with higher specs. Those Lenovo T14s do the job well.

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Australia has a ‘we can fix it, it’s still good attitude’. Of course there are companies who have established upgrade pathways, but that is mainly Banks, Stock Exchange, Airlines & Data Centers. Only really PCB failures ensure an upgrade happens in a lot of businesses.
I mean we currently have a problem with Railway comm’s failures because the embedded XP system keeps dropping the ball…
Replace it? Nooooo, patch it up. Anyone got some duct tape?

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For us, we have backups to a main Synology “SSD” NAS using Veeam Backup & Replication reverse increments. Then the 1st Veeam backup copy is to a few different consumer grade Synology NAS using SATA HDD, 2nd and 3rd Veeam backup copy is made to other Synology NAS solutions (like off site etc).

As Veeam Backup & Replication reverse increments. there will be a lot of writes as the synthetic full is created/updated after each backup (scheduled or run ad-hoc). So the consumer drives in the HDD could be replaced from 12 months to 36 months.

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Ideally endpoints should be every 3 years, but in the current climate, we try to stretch that a bit

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It kind of depends on what it is, server or workstation, but average is about 4-6 years, sometime more, sometimes less.

Switches could go a decade or more. We have printers that are well over a decade old.

We also have some old tech in storage that probably goes back 70 years…time to clean that up I think.

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It depends. I’m squarely in the 4-6 camp for the regular front office folks, but then out on the production floor, I refuse to get them a brand new shiny thing when the only thing they do is Teams and maybe our ERP. We have some machines out there that are approaching (if not already at) the 10-year mark. Of course, they’ve all been upgraded to SSD’s with W10 and 8GB RAM as a minimum, but they don’t get replaced until they actually die, and even then, they usually get equipment that was retired from the 4-6 camp.

EDITED TO ADD: It really chaps my a$$ that I’m going to have to replace many of my machines (about 30%) just to run W11 before W10 goes EOL. I remember much rejoicing when Microsoft announced W10 would be the last OS, as I’d already been through this with W2K, XP, and W7.

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Yeah…2025 is going to be an EXPENSIVE year for us…thanks Microsuck.

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Everyone has older devices. Economic and political reality. I’d love to see longer support cycles, with the prices (and profit margins) that suppliers have. Yes, they can afford it.

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Isn’t there a fix for not have a TPM for Windows 11?

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We try to go 6-7 years on pretty much everything.

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Depends on the device. A monitor I consider to last longer than a desktop, which lasts longer than a laptop due to being able to upgrade the desktop. Some devices like monitors, keyboards, and mice I view as eternal until they die or they no longer have connections that modern computers use.

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This…we probably have monitors that are 25 plus years old.