Are my HDDs too cold?

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Koala

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I recently finished building and doing burin in for my system. I installed FreeNAS last night and everything is going well so far, have a jail running HDHomeRun DVR, all fine. Here is my system:

  • FreeNAS 9.10 Stable
  • Supermicro X10SL7
  • Intel Xeon 1231v3
  • 4*8GB Crucial CT102472BD160B
  • (6)WD30EFRX WD Red 3TB in RAIDZ2
  • 250 GB Samsung 850 Evo (Jails)
  • 16GB SATADOM-SV 3ME3 (boot)
  • EVGA 220-G2-0550-Y1
  • Lian Li v358b
My case has 2 fans right in front of the HDDs, in which I have some Delta AFC1212D-PWM 120mm fans that idle at 1500RPM. I'm starting to think these are overkill. My HDDs sit at 27-29C when not doing anything. I started copying large files around to see if I could create some load and they never moved above 29C. I heard that low temps were as bad for fans as high temps so I was wondering if I need to rethink my cooling strategy and go for something quieter but warmer?
 

SweetAndLow

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Yes drives can be to cold but you are probably fine. As long as you don't have crazy low temps then crazy high temps I think things are fine. Sometimes my drive's hit 19c which is probably too cold, lol.
 
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