<div dir="ltr">Scott,<div><br></div><div style>I'm not a hardware expert, but have been dabbling ever since my Dad and I soldered a Heathkit way back when.</div><div style><br></div><div style>I would think the biggest determiner of longevity of the Raspberry Pi would be heat. My RPi does get warm when it is doing a lot of work. There is not even a passive heat sink on the CPU/GPU. So possibly thermal expansion/contraction causing shorts.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Another thing could be capacitor degradation. Obviously the design decisions made on the RPi were to keep the cost extremely low... it's an educational device. Perhaps due to cost they selected caps that were near the rated charge they needed and a small degradation in performance will affect proper functioning of the circuit.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Other than that, I'm not sure what would really fail on the RPi...but I'm not an expert.</div><div style><br></div><div style>-Eric</div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Scott Merrill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skippy@skippy.net" target="_blank">skippy@skippy.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Someone told me recently that Raspberry Pis are not designed for 24/7 operation.<br>
<br>
If one were to run a RasPi continuously, how would that effect that<br>
longevity of the device?<br>
<br>
I suspect the answer is "it depends" on things like workload,<br>
computational complexity, frequency of disk writes, etc. For the<br>
purpose of this thought experiment, let's assume the RasPi would not<br>
be doing anything terribly computationally complex, and wouldn't have<br>
excessive disk writes.<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
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