Run Freenas Fanless

cy8berpunk

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Hi,
I have freenas running on a Intel Pentium G4400 with a standard intel cooler. Can I plug off the fan or will it run hot and slow freenas noticably down. Can I run it fanless if I buy something with a larger cooling area?

greets from germany
 

Frank Collins

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The reason there is a cooler on your CPU is to prevent it running too hot and being destroyed.
Why do you want to run it fanless? If noise is a problem, get a quiet fan. You will need a big passive heatsink if you decide to remove the fan and it may not be enough when the CPU has to work hard.
 

sretalla

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Can I run it fanless if I buy something with a larger cooling area?
If you want to go down the road of something like this (and if you're still interested after seeing the physical size of those coolers):

You need to think about how you will move air over your disks (sort of the whole point of having FreeNAS, so maybe worth a thought).

What case and motherboard do you have?

You may be able to use one of the PID fan scripts in the forum to run fans at the lowest possible RPM to avoid noise, but still not fry your disks and CPU.
 
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