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System Suddenly Very Loud
Recently I noticed that my NAS (Legacy Ultra 6 Plus, with upgraded CPU and memory, running 6.7.4), which until then had been near-inaudible except possibly during boots or shutdowns, had become very loud. There has been no change in location for years (a well-ventilated cool closet). Nor do any of the disks give any indication of failing (not that the sound had that characteristic noise). So I suspected the fans and pulled up the relevant dashboard page: [Hmm, didn't there use to be a way to upload images to this forums? Or is that just all other forums? It is a pretty useful feature. In any case, here is the relevant part of the screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/7Y5GeqA.png] The first thing I noticed that these fan controls look new to me. They are neat, but they might be connected to the problem. Disk temperatures are fine. CPU a little high, but not alarming. However, the reported "System" temperature sounds really high; not system about to meltdown high, but completely unreasonably high. Could this possibly be correct? Or could it be related to a vaguely remembered issue with ReadyNAS 6 not reading certain sensors on legacy hardward correctly? In any case, the high reported System temperature is probably the reason that the fans are running at full speed and high noise. Switching between Quiet, Balanced, and Cool fan modes has no effect. I imagine that is the correct result in circumstances that the system feels that it needs all the cooling it can get, noise be damned. For what it is worth, the noise issue definitely existed in 6.7.1 and was not fixed in 6.7.4. So is there anything to be done about this? Or do I just need to find a different, more distant closet to locate the NAS in?
CarlEdman
Jun 16, 2017 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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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
whgmkeller1
Aug 12, 2016 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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ReadyNAS Ultra 6
funny story for another time, needless to say, I now own a Ultra 6 populated with (6) 2TB WD NAS Reds. Couple of questions for those of you who are more experienced than I. 1) I see a 1gb 6200 CL6 DIMM on the Atom motherboard. Is this for the OS use or do read/write buffer from here? Also, would adding a 2nd 1gb DIMM improve the preformance enough to make it worth bothering ? 2) I see that there is and also mentioned a "2nd fan header" next the one being used by what is the case fan. There appears to be a 3rd fan header over closer to the CPU. Can anyone confirm that this is a operational fan header ? 3) Have any of you had thermal warnings from the CPU (yellow temp range) when ambient room temps are ~74`f This is passively cooled so I added a small laptop fan to the lower side of the CPU heatsink to assist in cooling. Also replaced the almost non-existant thermal compound. Also just because I can and had them, I threw a memory chip style heat sink on the intel controller chip. So once I put it back together I'll see if any of this made a difference on temps. 55-60`c while watching last night.
Tacyon
Aug 02, 2015 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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