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On 08/12/2024 19:50, David Higton wrote:
> In message 
>            The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
>
>> It's an interesting thought as to why one would use a fan at all. If its
>> such a high compute task that you need one, maybe a bigger Pi or an
>> Intel based machine is indicated.
>>
>> I dislike fans. They fail.
>
> PC fans run pretty much all the time.  A fan on a RasPi is likely to
> run less of the time, and could well last longer overall.
>
> Fans fail.  Disc drives fail.  SSDs fail.  Batteries fail.  Reservoir
> capacitors fail.  But before they do, they are very useful.
>

Such an ArtStudent™ view of life.

Do you know what MTBF means?


> David

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