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How to control fanspeed on a RN104 for 6.7.4
Updating an old script to control the fan speed on the newer Firmware. I am not claiming credit all i did was update the sys path for the new frimware and change the startup script that had a typo ...
Not sure why you'd want to use this with the range of in-built fan control options available now.
Well the build in method thur the GUI even on the cool setting doesn't seem to keep the NAS cool at all max i have seen 800-1000 RPMs. With CPU temp at 60 C. At least with this script you can get temps down to 50 C and HD temp will be lower as well.
I feel Netgear needs a better calc for fan speed or at least more control to the user. aka thermal limits based on temps like QNAP and almost every other vendor
Also i do feel like this script should only be used by people that really know what they are doing. Since it is basicly a hack job and will most likely break when 6.8 or later rolls out
When my rn104 gets challenged its fan goes up to 3k+ rpm. That keeps the cpu below 60C and the 4 HGSTs in the 40s.
This is good enough for my purposes, because it is getting difficult to ignore the noise created by this level of cooling.
I never saw the fan going beyond 4k rpm and do not look forward to experiencing that. I imagine to hear such a level of noise, which could hardly be ignored in a living room.
I'm always using cooling option "balanced" and sometimes set that to "cool", if any kind of "purgatory" is in sight.
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