[sdiy] "Boutique" capacitors

[Brandon Daniel]

Scott Gravenhorst said:
>>Uh oh.    :-(
>>
>>Looking at my uptime on this machine,  it's sitting at 184 days plus.
>
> Gee, I've got 4 machines that have been on 24x7 for more than 5 years.
> Another one has been running over 7 years also powered on 24x7.  I buy
> mainboards from the computer swap meet, they were all brand new.  I've
> never heard of such a specification, official or otherwise as 1.5 to 2
> years max, and I've not seen that in practice either.

Yeah, it's been my experience that you're far more likely to lose a hard
drive in that timeframe than a motherboard. Consumer-level hard drives
these days generally only have a 1year warranty and their lifespan when on
24/7 tends to only last marginally longer than that.

-Brandon
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