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I don't think I've had a single resistor repaired in any of the thousands of servers I've owned in the past 20 years.

pietroglyph 8y ago
I picked a component off the top of my head. Water damage is almost always the culprit in these repairs, which doesn't affect most servers (except for these [0] maybe?) Louis Rossman's channel on Youtube [1] can give you better information than I can. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17444076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17444076 [1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup
rasz 8y ago
I dont think you shipped a whole Rack back because a single fan was broken either.
- greglindahl 8y ago
  Fans are a FRU. The complaint was about sub-fru items.
  - rasz 8y ago
    There are no sub-fru items in Apple ecosystem, in fact there are no frus either.
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Robotbeat 8y ago
I’ve had capacitors repaired.
- drewmol 8y ago
  Haha, of course you did - It's always a capacitor![1] These mature cheap reliable mass-produced electrolytic capacitors of which we rarely see fault today, sure had quite the rebellious stage[2] [3]. Interesting, from the announcement on badcaps.net[3]: "Back in April 2002, I had an idea to start a business (actually spinoff of another business) servicing motherboards at component level amid the mass capacitor failures plaguing the PC industry."..."The store boomed from its launch all the way up until about a year ago. Over the last 6 months or so, I have sold very few capacitors. Once my stock depletes, I will be shutting down the Badcaps.net store."
  - jacquesm 8y ago
    That wasn't an accident, but some company trying to cut corners on what was a well-understood manufacturing process.
- honestoHeminway 8y ago
  Did you reposition them? Capacitors are today often part of planne obsolence- you can time there demise pretta acuratly by placing them near a heat source. Two soldered wires later, placed at a cool spot, your capacitor might last long enough to see the board go up in flames for other reasons.
ben-schaaf 8y ago
Your servers probably aren't running at 95C under load and have all components ventilated.
Rjevski 8y ago
You probably don’t bring your server to hazardous environments where it can get drinks spilled on it. For laptops this kind of environment is common; in fact most of Louis Rossmann’s repairs are about liquid damage.

I picked a component off the top of my head. Water damage is almost always the culprit in these repairs, which doesn't affect most servers (except for these [0] maybe?) Louis Rossman's channel on Youtube [1] can give you better information than I can. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17444076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17444076 [1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup

rasz 8y ago

I dont think you shipped a whole Rack back because a single fan was broken either.

greglindahl 8y ago
Fans are a FRU. The complaint was about sub-fru items.
- rasz 8y ago
  There are no sub-fru items in Apple ecosystem, in fact there are no frus either.
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Robotbeat 8y ago

I’ve had capacitors repaired.

drewmol 8y ago
Haha, of course you did - It's always a capacitor![1] These mature cheap reliable mass-produced electrolytic capacitors of which we rarely see fault today, sure had quite the rebellious stage[2] [3]. Interesting, from the announcement on badcaps.net[3]: "Back in April 2002, I had an idea to start a business (actually spinoff of another business) servicing motherboards at component level amid the mass capacitor failures plaguing the PC industry."..."The store boomed from its launch all the way up until about a year ago. Over the last 6 months or so, I have sold very few capacitors. Once my stock depletes, I will be shutting down the Badcaps.net store."
- jacquesm 8y ago
  That wasn't an accident, but some company trying to cut corners on what was a well-understood manufacturing process.
honestoHeminway 8y ago
Did you reposition them? Capacitors are today often part of planne obsolence- you can time there demise pretta acuratly by placing them near a heat source. Two soldered wires later, placed at a cool spot, your capacitor might last long enough to see the board go up in flames for other reasons.

ben-schaaf 8y ago

Your servers probably aren't running at 95C under load and have all components ventilated.

Rjevski 8y ago

You probably don’t bring your server to hazardous environments where it can get drinks spilled on it. For laptops this kind of environment is common; in fact most of Louis Rossmann’s repairs are about liquid damage.