Reliability
The part of the Indy most prone to failure is the Nidec/Power General power supply. This is really too bad, because these power supplies are very complicated and difficult to repair. The failure of so many of these things have caused prices for individual power supplies - even of this model - to be quite high. $150-$200 is pretty common as of August 2000. The Sony power supplies, however, go for $250 and up, as of the same date. Compare this to the fact that whole Indys without hard drives frequently sell for $50 on eBay at this same time, with working Sony power supplies, and you'll leave scratching your head. Just when you thought you knew all about the market economy...
Another thing worth mentioning is that the Indy's Ethernet address, which doubles as the system's serial number, is stored in battery-backed RAM. This means that when the internal battery dies, so does the system - it will hang at the PROM montior and refuse to boot any further as a result of the Ethernet address being all FFs.
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