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dishmagic66
Apr 26, 2014Guide
How to control fanspeed on a RN104
On special request, here is a workaround for controling the fanspeed of the RN104 ( most likely the same on a 102). For this you will have to SSH in to the NAS. Thanks to Moseleypj for doing the ...
LPC
Sep 15, 2015Star
Hello,
Im a longtime NAS user but from Synology, and i have allways liked the fan profiles and performance that was on the cooling part of the NAS.
I have installed yesterday a new NAS from NETGear to replace my aging NAS.
I have purchase a 4 bay ReadyNAS 104. Great feel, and sturdy creation from Netgear... Feels very solid and way more solid then Synology all plastic approach.
My question, is why there is no FAN adjustment on the NAS OS? i see from the files here, that the fan can be controlled.
and BTW there should be (on top for exemple), an allways viewed Fan speed (and adjust), and cpu + hdd´s temps...
This should be like the DSM widgets system...
I hope NETGEAR sees this and do this addon to their OS. I would like to free adjust the power of the fan from 500 to 1300 rpms for exemple. Or adjust under load and stop at light load, etc...
Another thing to consider... why not a 120mm instead of a 92mm fan? There was space on the back... price wise is might be the same price the fans...
Thanks in advance and i hope to see these changes on an upcoming version of the OS...
Best Regards,
Lord Paulus Cobris
- SmokeyASep 28, 2015Aspirant
I Wrote my own simpler way
#!/bin/bash
string=$(sensors *-isa-* | grep T-junction | rev | cut -c 67- | rev | cut -c 16-)
timestamp() {
date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S"
}
( echo "temp was ${string} at $(timestamp)" ; ) >> ~/tempmon.txt
if [ $((${string})) -gt 65 ]; then
echo "210" > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/device/pwm1
else
if [ $((${string})) -lt 50 ]; then
echo "150" > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/device/pwm1
else
echo "170" > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/device/pwm1
fi
fi
Then I just edited a system cron job to include running this every 30 minutes,
/etc/cron.d/frontview-volumeschedule
and added
2,32 * * * * root script/location/name.sh 5 &> /dev/null
It also writes to a log file so you can see how it's performing.
the last few entries read
tail tempmon.txt temp was 56 at 2015-09-28_08-32-01 temp was 56 at 2015-09-28_09-02-01 temp was 55 at 2015-09-28_09-32-01 temp was 56 at 2015-09-28_10-02-02 temp was 55 at 2015-09-28_10-32-01 temp was 56 at 2015-09-28_11-02-01 temp was 56 at 2015-09-28_11-32-01 temp was 57 at 2015-09-28_12-02-02 temp was 57 at 2015-09-28_12-32-02 temp was 56 at 2015-09-28_13-02-02
So the sripts doing its Job and it doesn't need to run as a service as cron takes care of it.
- LPCSep 28, 2015Star
Hello!
Thanks for your information...
My question here is... why this is not implemented on the OS??
There is some room for improvement of the ReadyNAS OS...I hope netgear get his stuff right...
I did like the ReadyNAS 104, but the OS is behing his competition... Im now using a QNAP, and while QTS is no DSM from Synology, its still ahead of ReadyNAS OS.
For me the best OS experience i had on NAS is from DSM, it really looks and feels great... But the plastic feel of the Synology Casing, the premium that we have to pay for a less powerfull product is a detracting issue.
As a costumer, i see here space for NETGEAR to attack... The units are solid and heavy duty build, that i like very much, the LCD screen is a plus too, but the OS really needs a complete overhault... New Interface, better apps (Cloud SYNC is really needed), the antivirus APP is a joke...
This is my 2 cent... Better your software and i will return to NETGEAR...Best Regards,
LPC
- sauronekOct 06, 2015Aspirant
Hello.
How make this mod working under OS 6.4.0?
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