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Operate RN428 on its side?
Hi!
I recently purchased a RN428 for personal media storage, for the past few weeks it has been doing its job nicely standing under my desk, however due to fan/disk noise I want to move it to a sep...
Actually, heat does not flow upwards. Hot air does. In a forced air situation, as in the NAS, convection barely has an effect. But you still want the vents up unless the shelf is vented because you do not want the shelf to impede the forced air flow. Sufficient surrounding space or forced air ventilation of the cabinet are needed to insure the exhaust isn't directed to the intake
Sandshark wrote "Actually, heat does not flow upwards. Hot air does."
Just for the records, operating the nas on the surface of a planet being exposed to gravity heat does flow upwards, because hot air does :-)
But you are absolutely right, that "In a forced air situation, as in the NAS, convection barely has an effect."
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