National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Hardware Demise (Various)

With the large number of machines we support as system administrators, we run into all sorts of hardware failures eventually. Here are some of the interesting ones:

• Expanding batteries
  
  2012-2015
• Dying hard drives:
  • Desktop hardrive, 2004:
    
  • laptop hardrive, 2015:
    
  • laptop hardrive, 2017:
    (Ignore beeps in the middle-they're unrelated, but do enjoy the conga beat.)
    
• Monitor anomalies:
  
  iMac bad video card (2013)