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aris1234
May 16, 2016Aspirant
Fan 1 reported failed on NV+. Do I need a PWM 4-pin replacement fan?
Hello, I have an NV+ (older one - I believe it uses a Sparc). I'm getting notificatinons that Fan 1 has failed. It doesn't look like it has failed - as it is still spinning, but it does show 0 ...
BrianL2
May 17, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi aris1234,
Welcome to the community!
Kindly look at this thread and hopefully it suffice.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
- aris1234May 17, 2016Aspirant
Thanks for the response, but I can't really see the answer to my question anywhere. Lots of the links don't work either. I just want to know if I need a 3-pin fan or a 4 pin PWM chasis fan on an NV+.
thanks!
- mdgm-ntgrMay 17, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Does this thread help?: https://community.netgear.com/t5/ReadyNAS-Hardware-Compatibility/NV-Fan/td-p/831711
- aris1234May 17, 2016Aspirant
Somewhat. From what I can see, it is a 3-pin, but nothing i've read explicitly confirms that. I've ordered one - i'll post the results when I swap it out.
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