11-21-2013, 10:13 AM
Yes fan bearings will eventually wear out but, if you have a good quality fan, it probably isn't going to happen before you replace it anyway for other reasons. For example, to add to Snowreap's examples, I had a server where I work now that ran 24 hours a day/7 days a week/365 days a year for almost 10 years that not only didn't have any case fan failures, it had no component failures at all and is only out of service now because we upgraded the system that was running on it and it no longer met system requirements. That server was part of a 2 server pair. Its partner had a motherboard go out during that same time frame but none of its fans or other components failed.
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"Consensus: The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead." -Margaret Thatcher