I’m making a homeassistant sever with my raspberry pi and and i’m wondering since it’s going to be on 24/7 that the fans going to wear out much faster than intended. I can’t imagine that I would need a fan ontop of a heat sink and thermal paste it can’t get that hot? I should also note that i’m using an Argon V2 it’s one of those heat sink cases that are made for raspberry pis
I’ve been using this after, like you said, 2 weeks of full-time silent 3V fan, leading to a sudden increase in noise and worse performance (it essentially broke), and… damn, it cools even better now, it’s more temperature-stable, and it’s absolutely silent, while no extra power consumption is needed.
It is also true that I try to keep HAOS with as little concurrent addons as possible.
The case is really cool once set up, I love how it feels. It’s got a purpose and it’s going for it. Really feels like it was made 1000% for dissipating heat. And it works like magic.