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From: David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject: Re: Pi-FAN for RPi4 with 4 (instead of 3) cables?
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:27:19 GMT
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          The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> On 08/12/2024 19:50, David Higton wrote:
> > In message <vj1d28$31v9g$12@dont-email.me>
> >            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