[sdiy] "Boutique" capacitors

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"Brandon Daniel" <bdu at fdiskc.com> wrote:
>
>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.

That's not been my experience.  I don't purchase high end drives either. 
Disk drives on my LAN are retired for being too small, not for failing. 
All are operated 24x7, I turn off the power management crapola.  I have
some 15 or so drives that are all operating 24x7, for years.  Maybe I'm
just lucky?  There were a few models released a several years ago, that
failed early.  The Quantum Fireball was one IIRC.

Fans are my biggest problem.  *Those* things are made of crap.










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