If they can put a man on the moon, why can’t some company make fans that last more than a year?
I know, cost cost cost, but seriously. Even the ‘so called’ high-end products, like my ATI video adapter, has a cheap fan.
So even though the video card is less than a year old, on bootup I hear the fan doing the little moaning and groaning sound, telling me it’s on the way out.
The fan in my fairly costly nVidia adapter just seized, causing the card to overheat and fail.
And the power supply fan in one of my Dell PCs is starting the death-rattle.
At least a dozen times I’ve worked on PCs where the first thing you notice is that it’s too quiet, and there’s a burning smell, meaning the power supply fan is toast.
I have a Cisco switch which has six good quality ball-bearing fans in it. It’s as loud as a vacuum cleaner, but they keep going and going….I suppose that’s part of the reason that unit costs twice what most switches cost.