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Hit 500 board repairs last month and it snuck up on me
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graymiller5mo ago
I just saw a video from a tech YouTuber talking about how rack-level repairs have been getting more common with all these new server designs. 500 repairs in a month is a huge number, must be a busy shop. Was it mostly power supply swaps or did you get into some weird motherboard failures too? I remember when we hit 300 a few years back and it felt like we were drowning in work.
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gonzalez.phoenix5mo ago
...and honestly, the weird stuff is what really drives that number up. Power supply swaps are still the bread and butter, maybe 60% of our work. But we've been seeing a lot of those new hot-swap drive backplanes just straight up dying after a year. The plastic tabs snap off and then the whole thing has to come out. Also had a weird run of motherboard failures where the BMC chip would just stop responding entirely, no lights, no ping, nothing. That was a pain because you'd think it was a power issue at first and waste time swapping PSUs. Take this with a grain of salt, but I swear the newer the design, the more random stuff breaks.
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