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t1000-forever
May 17, 2026Aspirant
Replacement fan ReadyNAS nv+ v2
I recently setup my ReadyNAS NV+ v2 from scratch with four 3 TB Hitachi DK7SAD300 drives, replacing the two 3 TB Western Digital WD30EFRX drives. This is now all working well, however recently the f...
StephenB
May 17, 2026Guru - Experienced User
t1000-forever wrote:four 3 TB Hitachi DK7SAD300 drives
At idle these use about 6 watts each, so 24 watts total. The two WD30EFRX would use a total of 8 watts at idle. So the new setup will definitely require more cooling.
In addition to the fan replacement, you might consider enabling disk spindown.
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