Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix ...
by MayeulC on Saturday January 23, 2021 @04:34PM
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> a good positive is most parts are durable / quality parts
Exactly. Surviving parts are often high quality, due to that process of "natural" selection, and are just in the middle of their bathub curve.
On the other side, you also do get a lot of parts with idiosyncratic or hard to diagnose deficiencies (like, RAM with a few bad bytes that you need to ignore, harddisks with bad sectors (same), CPUs and GPUs that randomly lock up, parts that work only in a certain temperature range, etc).
Exactly. Surviving parts are often high quality, due to that process of "natural" selection, and are just in the middle of their bathub curve.
On the other side, you also do get a lot of parts with idiosyncratic or hard to diagnose deficiencies (like, RAM with a few bad bytes that you need to ignore, harddisks with bad sectors (same), CPUs and GPUs that randomly lock up, parts that work only in a certain temperature range, etc).