Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 23:30:13 -0500 From: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Weird Hardware Problem Message-ID: <Yohq1RegvGvWLPiR@geeks.org> In-Reply-To: <4287e288d0655880e1d6bb3598662eeb6a5a30e3.camel@adminart.net> References: <0a9f810d-7b4b-f4e6-4b7c-716044a9cf69@tundraware.com> <8b13e2f5-6ff4-ecc2-7036-c88cff0f5b6b@tundraware.com> <8732b894-0962-3546-4697-4c2ae0658cb8@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200520182154.GA87305@neutralgood.org> <4287e288d0655880e1d6bb3598662eeb6a5a30e3.camel@adminart.net>
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On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 12:14:35AM +0200, hw wrote: > In about 25 years, I have seen only two PSUs fail. One was plugged up > by dust and started smoking and might have set the place on fire if the... When you have a datacenter full of devices, you'll see alot more failures... I've gone through hundreds of fried power supplies on hardware. Sometimes its the caps drying out and popping. Sometimes the fans get clogged up and components overheat. Sometimes something fries out in switching guts. The fun ones are when one side fries itself, and feeds back into the redundant side and surges and trips out that side as well. Always something to keep you on your toes.
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