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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...
ernhamDjinn wrote: It seems to me that a lot of the noise caused by the fan is the vibration of the back plate the fan is attached to.
That is true. With the original fan the finger protector of the fan of my DUO made an irritating high pitch resonating sound. Sticking a piece of car dampening tar on the centre of it solved it. Still the fan made excessive noise. Noise was gone after replacing it for a more silent one and my disks are running cooler as a bonus.
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