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RN214 Fan Question
Hello All, I see questions here about fans and noise, etc. I am not as worried about those issues as the NAS hides in the basement next to the switch. The question I have is can the voltage be...
Unless you have the front of your NAS improperly blocked, the fan does not create a "vacuum". Fans are rated for both forward and backward pressure, and chasses are designed with a specific airflow. Changing the direction of the fan will change both of those, and likely result in less cooling, not more, as it will blow directly on the SATA backplane.
You can tweak the max and min fan speed settings, but unless your drives or CPU are getting really hot (so something is wrong), I suspect you are worried about nothing. The NAS and drives are designed to work over a very large range of temperatures with no degradation. I suspect it's rather cool in your basement, which is why the fan runs slow -- it's simply unnecessary to run it any faster.
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