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Fan Problem After Upgrading To 6.6.1
It might have been coincidence but a day after I had upgraded to ver 6.6.1, I received a "The device is shutting down because Disk-1 has exceeded 60 deg C" message (or something like that), and I fou...
Thx for sharing, as if more users run into this it's clearly something Netgear should try to figure out.
You might grab logs now, just in case someone from netgear wants to see them - they will eventually rotate, and the shutdown information will disappear.
The good thing is that the NAS did shut down and protect the disk.
The bad thing is my Fan Alert was toggled "ON" but I didn't receive any advise the fan wasn't doing its job. If I was your average end-user, I might have seriously taken that HD heating up advise at face value and spend money to unnecessarily replace a perfectly good HD plus waste effort just to bring it online. Had this thing gone forward in that direction, I certainly wouldn't have anything nice to say about NETGEAR.
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