[Gllug] Free: SCSI CDRom drives, plus caddy drives

[Nix]

On 30 Sep 2009, David Damerell said:

> On Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009, Nix wrote:
>>I find that fans get noisy with age much faster than drives do, probably
>>because drives are a sealed precision-engineered unit, while fans are
>>often cheap as anything and are in any case exposed to all the dust you
>>can dream of.
>
> There's a question. QuietPC will sell me about a dozen different
> models of fan in any size I use. Each model quotes a random different
> subset of speed, noise output, airflow, and MTBF. Any idea how I
> choose beyond going for the third cheapest? 

Don't ask me!

> I'd not mind a "I put a Wazco 3000D in my machine in 1998 and it
> hasn't blown up yet" anecdote, even...

The only time I ever tried changing a fan the whole machine died.
I've never dared since.
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