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Hard drive temperature
I've put in some non official drives 
I searched through the forums and see that most screenshot shows around 30-35C for hard drive temperature. Mine is old drives from 2007 ( online ~14000 hours) constantly at around 40C which is probably why my nv+ v2 fan keeps spinning up when it hits around 43C.
Is there a way to up the threshold? Or I guess I need to spend some money on better drives. At 3k rpm, it is very noisy and you can even hear it from another room.
I searched through the forums and see that most screenshot shows around 30-35C for hard drive temperature. Mine is old drives from 2007 ( online ~14000 hours) constantly at around 40C which is probably why my nv+ v2 fan keeps spinning up when it hits around 43C.
Is there a way to up the threshold? Or I guess I need to spend some money on better drives. At 3k rpm, it is very noisy and you can even hear it from another room.
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- Most manufacturers set the operating temperature threshold at 5°C to 55°C Others may have a slightly different threshold going up to 60°C so those temps look fine, but i can understand your concern about the fan noise but the fan is just doing its job to stop it reaching critical temperature there is no way to adjust the threshold that i know of and doing this could void your warranty.
- The fan is operating like a hair dryer, I don't mind if that occurs when it is heavy load. But even when it isn't doing anything it still spins up.
I've put in a different drive. It looks like it runs at a lower temperature. Guess its time to swap them all out but the slight issue I have is that all the other newer drives I got are different brand and model...
Banz wrote: Guess its time to swap them all out but the slight issue I have is that all the other newer drives I got are different brand and model...
This shouldnt be a problem... ;)- I run the 2TB version of those drives in a Pro (6 bay). Those look like typical temperatures of mine.
- Problem is mine runs the fan at full speed when the system temperature is at 42-43C. At full speed it will drop down to 38C but it won't take long before it creeps up again.
- It looks like the Hitachis do tend to run warm. I have two 3TB greens and two new WD red label 1TB and they seem to run cooler. This is in my new (several months) Pro 6 running 4.2.22.
- Very Interesting. Apparently the 6 Bay NAS runs warmer than the 4 Bay. These are in my NVX BE that is 2 1/2 years old and sits right beside the Pro 6 (right side so as to not block Pro 6 CPU air vent).
I've mixed the disk up a bit. Currently it looks like my Seagate one is running the coolest.
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