What is the most common part failure you have encountered during your time working on PC's?

[LinusOnLine]

1 minute ago, TempestCatto said:

That's weird. I've only ever had one Seagate drive fail on me, and that's because I dropped the laptop it was in while it was read/writing data. I wonder if Seagate does the same thing as WD where you have to look at the serial number to confirm which factory it was made in as those drives are actually built better than their others.

I remember having huge problems with WD blue in the past but these days I run WD red or Black and so far none of them have failed me

[porina]

Fans for sure. I figure a useful working life of about 2 years continuous. Sometimes more, sometimes less.

 

Probably HDs 2nd.

[Jurrunio]

15 minutes ago, LinusOnLine said:

Same here. For some reason no seagate I have owned last more than just over the warranty. One time I got 3 new seagate drives on the same warranty. My conclusion is simply that seagate drives are horrible. 

Yeah. WD has no problem (used 2 blues, 1 green and a rather old 320GB one from a dead video recorder) & HGST is a bit shouty but so far nothing's lost.

[Guest]

22 hours ago, TetraSky said:

Hard Drive, RAM, PSU are the big three that usually fail for me.

I would have to agree with this. Hard Drives definitely take the cake on workstations at least.  Ram was the next follow up. PSU from quality product where not so high but low-end cheap branded PSU's where a big issue but not as common as the other two components. 

[geo3]

Mechanical storage, hands down. But that's  a thing of the past now.

[jones177]

 

1 Hard drives. In the end they all failed.

2 PSUs. It took me about 10 years to figure out not to buy the cheap no name ones.

3 GPUs. 2 out of 16 have failed since 2007. Both RMAed.

4 Motherboards. 1 in 4 fails. I keep them for a long time so not a big deal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mykie]

Hard Drives and computer fans...

[Fasauceome]

I've had headache upon headache with broken motherboards, really blows.

[Nebari]

Case fans and then RAM.

 

And CMOS batteries. ('cause I'm a bad person who locks PCs away in dark closets).

[mr moose]

12 hours ago, ActuallyMediocreOC said:

I work at a computer store and the most commonly failed part we see is the hard drive, followed by the power supply (Dunno how many of each)

HDD are one of those products that will fail either in the first few months or generally not till 5 years,  it's best to think of them more as a consumable product.

 

Having said that, personally because I upgrade my storage every 4-5 years I've only had one hdd fail on me,  I've had 3 GPU's and 3 PSU's in 20 years.  In fact nearly every piece of hardware I have kept still works, it's just obsolete .

[Don Vielenio]

I've had to to replace 2 mainboards, one cause mounting for CPU cooler broke of and the next one because of an damaged SATA controller... oh and I had constant Problems with onboard networking device. I had although to replace 2 HDDs.

In office we have to replace an HDD per month, so i'd say HDD is part most prone to failure.

[Mesterial]

I would say for me : HDD first, SSD and motherboard second (not so often though)

[NeuesTestament]

Without a doubt Harddrives. I don't think I had ever a CPU or GPU dying on me, but damn the HDDs really don't like me.

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3TB Seagates

[TH3R34P3R]

ive had 3 GPUs dead in under 16 months. a 1080ti, a 1080, and a 2080ti. 

 

Ive had 2 dead mobos, a dead HDD, and a few dead ram sticks. thats about it.