Re: Pi-FAN for RPi4 with 4 (instead of 3) cables?

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          The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 08/12/2024 19:50, David Higton wrote:

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           The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> 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?

Yes.  Something I don't understand, though, is why so many people use
the term MTBF when the appropriate one would be MTTF, since so few of
the things referred to are repaired.

David