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Replacing the fan in ReadyNAS Duo - possible?
Hello. Has anyone replaced/changed the (stock) fan in the Netgear ReadyNAS duo? I would like to do this, since I think the fan makes far too much noise. Any comments and thoughts about this is w...
Here my results:
I noticed that part of the noise generated is caused by resonating of the metal of the back of the box. Especially the finger protector can resonate at a high irritating pitch. Putting some pieces of damping material for use in cars on the back and centre of the grille did help a lot.
A week ago I did put in two WD WD1000FYPS 1TB enterprise disks. Wow, these disk are really silent, almost inaudible, even listening very close at them. Time to get rid of the remaining noise of the fan and jump into the adventure :D
Removed the original fan and did put a super silent 70mm fan from Nexus on the back. This fan is recycled from a Nexus AMD Socket A/462 CPU cooler from my surplus bin.
The thing is really silent now and almost inaudible, even close by. Only very close at the unit you can hear some weak noise from the air flow at the back. I did a recalibration of the fan and it is running at a steady speed of 1650 RPM at 21 deg room temperature.
I did not enable HD spin down so the disk are spinning continuous. Disk temperature with the original Crown fan was at a steady 39 - 40 deg C at 21 deg C room temperature and 1550 RPM with the new WD HD’s installed. With the Nexus fan steady disk temperature has now even dropped to a comfortable 31 – 33 deg at 21 deg room temperature.
IMHO Netgear has still an opportunity to make the Duo box really quiet. At least a lot quieter than it came from the factory.
I noticed that part of the noise generated is caused by resonating of the metal of the back of the box. Especially the finger protector can resonate at a high irritating pitch. Putting some pieces of damping material for use in cars on the back and centre of the grille did help a lot.
A week ago I did put in two WD WD1000FYPS 1TB enterprise disks. Wow, these disk are really silent, almost inaudible, even listening very close at them. Time to get rid of the remaining noise of the fan and jump into the adventure :D
Removed the original fan and did put a super silent 70mm fan from Nexus on the back. This fan is recycled from a Nexus AMD Socket A/462 CPU cooler from my surplus bin.
The thing is really silent now and almost inaudible, even close by. Only very close at the unit you can hear some weak noise from the air flow at the back. I did a recalibration of the fan and it is running at a steady speed of 1650 RPM at 21 deg room temperature.
I did not enable HD spin down so the disk are spinning continuous. Disk temperature with the original Crown fan was at a steady 39 - 40 deg C at 21 deg C room temperature and 1550 RPM with the new WD HD’s installed. With the Nexus fan steady disk temperature has now even dropped to a comfortable 31 – 33 deg at 21 deg room temperature.
IMHO Netgear has still an opportunity to make the Duo box really quiet. At least a lot quieter than it came from the factory.
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