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Pro Pioneer very loud - OS 6.5.1
I have a Pro Poineer Edition (6 bays) running on OS 6.5.1. Bays 1 thru 3 are filled, each with a Seaget 3TB HDD. All HDD's are fairly new, with power-on hours ranging from 1000 thru 9000. No ATA errors. Disks are in RAID5.
I have selected the fan setting Quiet, but still my Pro Pioneer is very loud. Fans are spinning 1400rpm for CPU and 1481rpm for system.
I have cleaned the inside of the NAS, no or almost no dust in the ventilators.
What is the matter here? The NAS is accesible but the noise it produces does not sound good... It sits next to me on a shelve above my head and I can't make any phone calls for the noise...
All sugegstions welcome - thanks in advance.
Greetz,
Willem
Netherlands
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i have a pro 6 with xeon x3230 with fans running for cpu at 1700 rpm and system at 1350 rpm
the unit is within 2 feet from my ears and very quiet.
if yours very loud may be u consider changing the fans?
The thing is: it was never that loud. I can't be sure exactly but this problem has only occured in teh last months or so. So I'm thinking it might have something to do with the last upgrades of the firmware. From my memory it was loud from OS 6.5.0 on.
Does anyone else experience this?
Willem
whgmkeller1 wrote:
The thing is: it was never that loud. I can't be sure exactly but this problem has only occured in teh last months or so. So I'm thinking it might have something to do with the last upgrades of the firmware. From my memory it was loud from OS 6.5.0 on.
Does anyone else experience this?
Willem
What fan profile are you using? quiet, balanced or cool???
Certainly fan and cooling issues have popped up with legacy NAS running OS 6 from time to time. The good news is that Netgear has generally fixed them (at least so far).
So it could be related to 6.5.0. But of course it's also August (which might be relevant if you are in the Northern Hemisphere). It could also be a fan bearing starting to fail - if so, it will get worse.
FWIW, my pro-6 (4.2.28) shows the system fan at 1300 rpm and the CPU fan at 2200 at the moment. Disk temps are about 33C.
One thought is that you could get a sound meter app for your phone. Even if you can't calibrate it, it will still be able to measure changes in noise levels over time. BTW you do need to calibrate those apps. I have one on my Samsung Galaxy that was 9 db off (when compared with a real sound meter).
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