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ReadyNAS Ultra 4: how to stop the fan from making noise
I used to own an Ultra 2 and I was really happy with it. It was sitting under my desk and it made no noise from the fan. Now I bought an Ultra 4 to have room for expansion. While the Ultra 4 is a n...
I do fix the fan speed yes, though I have it in a controlled environment. I used to have a cron script running to periodically check the temps and raise the fan a bit, but haven't need it in awhile.
Editing enclosure.db may be cleaner, but as you saw, needs re-editing sometimes. I just modify the output of that db in the ramdisk on the fly each boot. This also lets me quickly move the script to other systems without further modifications.
I've done similar on other systems where I'm running fanless (no fans at all), editing the enclosure.cfg to remove values to get rid of any pointless alerts.
Editing enclosure.db may be cleaner, but as you saw, needs re-editing sometimes. I just modify the output of that db in the ramdisk on the fly each boot. This also lets me quickly move the script to other systems without further modifications.
I've done similar on other systems where I'm running fanless (no fans at all), editing the enclosure.cfg to remove values to get rid of any pointless alerts.
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