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Fan speed control
Apologies if this has been requested before. Living in a warmer climate (Singapore) ad having just setup my RN314 with a single 500GB drive for testing. I can already see CPU temps hitting 55c+ and...
If you look at figure 5 here, http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf there is an increased failure rate for drives over 40C (after 3 years).
mdgm wrote: 40c is well below the safe maximum level. It is fine for temps to go higher than that.
The study is dated, but I think it is a reasonable concern. There are lots of people over the years who have requested some choices for fan speed, and since the safe operating range is fairly broad it seems to me it would be a good thing for Netgear to do.
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