Stone Mini PC ITX Advisory

[JATSO]

Hi All,

 

Received an email from Stone Support of an advisory with their mini ITX PC's.

 

We have 15 of these in a small ITsuit working very well still with SSD's in them.

Not wishing to hold onto a potential problem especially as I only visit 1 day a week, I am looking at alternatives and was thinking of these:

 

Gigabyte GB-BXBT-2807-250SSD/4GB RAM No OS Barebone PC and use the existing SSDs that we have in the Stone PC's.

Anyone using these type of mini pc in their schools?

 

Thank You

 

19th November 2019

 

Subject: Product Advisory for Stone Mini ITX

Dates of Sale: February 2011 through August 2012

 

 

 

Description:

 

Stone have found cause to believe that for a small subset of Mini ITX desktop units sold between February 2011 and August 2012, repeated wear and tear to the power cables supplied with the desktop may in certain circumstances cause a heat dissipation issue. Which manifests itself, in the cable becoming hot and potentially failing.

 

Mini ITX Connector

 

This advisory does not apply to units with a four pin power connector.

 

Due to the age of the units it's probable that many of these are no longer in use, in which case, please disregard this letter. Otherwise we recommend you cease using the original cables.

 

We would stress that this affects a small number of units which are now well beyond their normal useful life, however we are proactively contacting customers to make them aware of this potential issue.

 

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

 

[PotNoodleTech]

Interesting one!

 

Another reason why I despise PCs that don't have a kettle lead.

 

It's not a laptop is it, so you theoretically shouldn't be getting "repeated wear and tear to the power cables supplied with the desktop" as they should be just plugged in once when the room was set up and not really unplugged since?

[JATSO]

Interesting one!

 

Another reason why I despise PCs that don't have a kettle lead.

 

It's not a laptop is it, so you theoretically shouldn't be getting "repeated wear and tear to the power cables supplied with the desktop" as they should be just plugged in once when the room was set up and not really unplugged since?

 

Comes with an external PSU to supply the PC, they do get warm and they never move unless I move them, the advisory is not to use them which puts our small ITSuite out of use.

I have thrown it back to Stone because it now means we either run the risk (which we won't) or buy replacments.