[K12OSN] Fans - quiet vs. failure?

[Lewis Holcroft]

Chuck,

We have been using fan-less clients for over 5 years. We have had no  
failures as a result of overheating. We have had a few DOA units. We  
provided a few of our clients backup units just incase they had a  
failure. They truth is their Windows based PC's died more frequently  
and they swapped thin clients into place and never went back.

Lewis

On Aug 24, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Chuck Kollars wrote:

> 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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