On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:35:27PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:00:23PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:02:29PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > > My _first_ consideration (other than not going bankrupt) was longevity, > > > hense the huge case, PSU in bottom bay, and lots of fans. Good reliable > > > fans also seem to be quieter than cheap unreliable ones. > > > > why PSU in the bottom bay? Does that not force more heat into the rest > > of the box? or is it to keep the PSU , a very failure prone item, > > cooler and thus longer lived? just curious. > > > > Is the PSU really more failure prone than any other component? it is my understanding, having long ago lost the source, that the PSU is the *most* failure prone item. At least in consumer grade stuff. But it is largely overlooked and probably goes undiagnosed, or misdiagnosed as mobo issues etc. I do know that the two times I've taken a box into a professional for diagnosing, the first thing they test is the PSU. Anecdotaly, I lose way more PSU's than anything else. Maybe I've got bad power and in fact, I've not lost one on a UPS... hmmm... Anyway, somewhere I read its PSU, then disks, then other stuff... A
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