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[K12OSN] Fans - quiet vs. failure?
- From: Chuck Kollars <ckollars9 yahoo com>
- To: K12OSN redhat com
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- Subject: [K12OSN] Fans - quiet vs. failure?
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:47:03 -0700 (PDT)
Does anybody have a couple years experience with fanless clients?
There's a clear advantage in the much lower noise level.
But I suspect the other side of the tradeoff is a very high cost in increased failure rate.
I'm old enough to remember when demotivated users caused hardware failures simply by putting a piece of paper over vent holes - I suspect students would accidentally cover vent holes frequently. The last time I stacked up a bunch of Ethernet hubs, all but the bottom one failed within three weeks. And shortly after I rotated a DSL modem so the vent holes were on the sides instead of top and bottom, it failed.
Am I just worrying about something that's no longer a problem, or are high failure rates and susceptibility to misuse still big issues?
-Chuck Kollars
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