Fan Control for ReadyNAS NV+ v2 (Make it more quiet please)

Wchich is why I said I was reluctant to put it there in the first place. But as I said I tried it and its not as bad as I was afraid of. 

There is decent air flow there, mostly because the back side of the drawer is open. Like I said It's a tv bench, so its more or less designed to have electronics in it.

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jarlelin wrote:

There is decent air flow there, mostly because the back side of the drawer is open. 

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That does make a difference, and of course you are keeping a close watch on the temperature.

Looking at my NAS with the 4 WD RED's and 2 Seagate NAS drives, the 2 Seagates are actually running cooler by a few degree's then the WD Red.  These Seagates are 5900RPM to the WD at 5400RPM.  Strange.  Still  it's only a few degree's so nothing that really stands out.  I have 100f, 102f,105f,100f for the WD currently and 98f, 96f for my 2 Seagates, for what all that is worth.

There is no reason for faster 7200RPM drives let alone 10,000RPM drives.  You still have bandwidth limitations of your network.  I can max out my Gigabit Network no problem.  That NV+ V2, you'll get about 1/5 of Network speed.  Again. not a very fast NAS all around.  Fast or slow NAS, a 5400RPM drive is more then fast enough and can handle a number of streams at once.  Well a NV+ V2 can handle about 1 at best quality setting.  Even then it's kind of iffy.  I would normally have to lower the quality down a bit in PLEX to stream correctly.

Now if you had a NAS with a 10Gigabit port?  That's something I havn't gotten into yet.  Will a WD Red now be a bottleneck?  I know they have the WD RED PRO drives which are 7200RPM.  The Slower drives are quiter and don't run as hot and so less fan speed needed to keep them cool enough. Cooler running drives I believe are longer lasting drives.  A couple of my WD RED's are from Jan 2013. So over 4 years old now with zero errors.   My NAS drives get newer and newer as I needed more space,I popped in another.  My 4 WD Red drives used to be installed in my NV+ V2 NAS.  After backing up my Data, I pulled those drives and popped them into my 516, formated to the new file format and it's been that way since, though added a Seagate NAS and when space started running out, added the second Seagate NAS.  I do have Labels on the side of my NAS inline with each HDD showing what it is and the Date Installed.  So I can keep track.  I also labeled the HDD with the date Installed.   I can better keep track of long long a HDD lasts me.

On the temps, it also does depend a bit on what ReadyNAS slot.  A lot of folks have reported higher temps with Seagates (and I saw that myself several years ago when I had a mix), but I think it really does depend on the specific models.

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JBDragon1 wrote:

 

Now if you had a NAS with a 10Gigabit port?  That's something I havn't gotten into yet.  Will a WD Red now be a bottleneck?  I

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The Reds could be a bottleneck there.  It's not that easy to test if you are using gigabit clients.  I got well over 300 MB/sec with the Reds in the RN526 (RAID-5).

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JBDragon1 wrote:

 

I know they have the WD RED PRO drives which are 7200RPM.

 

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Just wanted to add that the Red Pro's are enterprise-class, while the Reds are not.

The Reds have worked out well for me.  I began installing them in 2012, and those first ones are still running.

Even now on my 516 today, my Seatgate drives are the bottom 2. It's showing 105f, 105f, 107f, 105, then the Seagates 104f, 100f.  That's the order of my drives top to bottom.  So for me, I'm seeing my Seagates running just a bit cooler then the WD drives.  Not really much to matter, it's pretty much a wash.  

How good the Seagates work over the WD?  I have no idea yet.  Until I start having failing drives in my NAS, I can't judge it.  Personally I think the WD drives are better then the Seagate drives, just from reputation.  From personal experiance?  The Seagates were a little cheaper at the time I got those then the WD.  I also don't buy all my drives at once as I don't want to be one that gets a batch of BAD drives as it does happen.   I buy as I need more room.  I do have a spare Seagate NAS 3TB drive, brand new around here someplace.  

I havn't gotten into 10Gigabit networks at my work or Home.  It's still Gigabit and I don't see that changing anytime soon.  So zero experiance with that.  Seeing WD and Seagates in the same NAS, in the same location, everything being equal, those Seagates are still running cooler then the WD.  2 days in the row I've looked, same results.  It is what it is.