11-20-2013, 07:21 PM
most of my machines are on all the time and the only case fans I have had to replace are the crappy ones that came with cheap cases (mostly 80mm fans).
my current firewall/router is an old Dell Optiplex GX1 (400MHz Pentium II) which is still using the original fan (although it's now on its second power supply). I don't recall exactly how old it is, but I'm pretty sure it's more than 10 years.
I have a couple of Compaq Proliant servers (a Proliant 1500R and a Proliant 6500R, iirc.) I'm not using them now but I ran them for years and never had to replace a fan (although I had to replace a lot of the drives).
my current server has a Tyan motherboard in a Lian Li case (the one with 6 fans that I mentioned). None of the fans in that system have failed yet and that machine is usually running 24x7. the motherboard is the one from the AMD/Microsoft road show (it came with 2 Opteron CPUs and a copy of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise) and I've been using it for a long time, maybe 8+ years.
I've had a bunch of non-case fans fail: a couple of CPU fans, a couple of northbridge fans, and the factory fan on an old ATI-branded Radeon.
-ken
my current firewall/router is an old Dell Optiplex GX1 (400MHz Pentium II) which is still using the original fan (although it's now on its second power supply). I don't recall exactly how old it is, but I'm pretty sure it's more than 10 years.
I have a couple of Compaq Proliant servers (a Proliant 1500R and a Proliant 6500R, iirc.) I'm not using them now but I ran them for years and never had to replace a fan (although I had to replace a lot of the drives).
my current server has a Tyan motherboard in a Lian Li case (the one with 6 fans that I mentioned). None of the fans in that system have failed yet and that machine is usually running 24x7. the motherboard is the one from the AMD/Microsoft road show (it came with 2 Opteron CPUs and a copy of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise) and I've been using it for a long time, maybe 8+ years.
I've had a bunch of non-case fans fail: a couple of CPU fans, a couple of northbridge fans, and the factory fan on an old ATI-branded Radeon.
-ken
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