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Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025

81 pointsby zdwlast Saturday at 4:34 AM31 commentsview on HN

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BadBadJellyBeanyesterday at 7:27 PM

I always wonder how many system crashes that we put on the software or the OS are actually just sub optimal components. Computers are so complex and so fast that just a little bit of instability can probably lead to data corruption.

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mrweaselyesterday at 8:03 PM

Maybe they just don't really use anything else, but I just love that the most reliable memory is just Kingston ValueRAM. No fancy heat spreader or packaging, not even a black PCB, just chips on a classic green circuit board.

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skobesyesterday at 9:20 PM

My main home PC is a Puget Serenity workstation from 2017. It has been rock solid and outperforms much newer laptops. And it has almost zero fan noise which is a priority for me. Unfortunately it looks like they may have discontinued the Serenity model, at least I don't see it on the website anymore.

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rpcope1yesterday at 10:20 PM

I am not surprised at all to see the W series Xeons with very high reliability. I know they tend to be pricier than AMD, and maybe not as fast, but I can't recall the last time I managed to kill an E3/E5/W series Xeon in the last 15 years, no matter how hard they're worked. Intel pooched it with the i-series core parts, but the workstation xeons have always been really reliable and more thrifty with power especially at idle than AMD.

ameliusyesterday at 11:07 PM

Did they manage to get USB to work reliably, because ime that's always a gamble.

sergiotapiatoday at 12:01 AM

I always dreamed of owning a Puget Systems computer. They seems a cut above the rest.

Either them or a Falcon Northwest. What other builders exist at this level of premium quality?

fmajidyesterday at 9:35 PM

Puget is a specialist seller of high-end workstation, so their component choices are certainly a cut above what the average PC seller uses.

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