Maintaining and servicing your device
7.2 Maintenance intervals
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Operating Instructions, 04/2019, A5E45117996-AA
7.2
Maintenance intervals
To maintain high system availability, we recommend the preventative replacement of those
PC components that are subject to wear. The table below indicates the intervals for this
replacement.
Component
Replacement interval:
Hard disk drive
3 years
Fan
3 years
CMOS backup battery
5 years
SSD
Depends on the type of use
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The interval for replacement of the flash drives (SSD) depends greatly on the type of use. A specif-
ic interval cannot be given.
Note
All drives are monitored with the SIMATIC DiagBase or SIMATIC DiagMonitor software tools
on the basis of their Smart status.
As soon as the Smart status of the data storage medium goes to "Not OK", a message is
generated in SIMATIC DiagBase or SIMATIC DiagMonitor or also during a system start of
the device. You should then back up your data and replace the drive.