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RE: Fanless!

Fans come in standardized sizes (diameter and mounting holes and depth) and standardized wiring and voltages. It may be possible to reduce the noise of a system by substituting a different fan, but the result may cause the equipment to run (slightly) hotter.

I had a very noisy NAS. A few years ago the noisy fan failed and I replaced it (an easy repair, unbolt and solder). The new fan had a higher quality bearing and was slightly slower, so it made less noise and provided less cooling. As a result, the disk drives ran about 2 degrees C warmer, something I deemed insignificant in terms of product lifetime. (It wasn't possible to run the NAS fanless as it had a loud alarm when the fan failed and the disk drives were getting excessively hot, although not as hot as the drives in my PC.)


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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