Hope everyones having a good weekend.
Recently built myself a NAS server with the hardware mentioned in my signature. Was working well until the ambient temperature (due to start of Summer), starting going up. And so did my HDD temps. (Min: 35C; Max: 43C-45C under load). So, per my research for the WD Reds and HDD's in general, thought of changing the cabinet (side) fans with Noctua & the rear exhaust fan with Noctua NF-P12 PWM(*2 & rear exhaust fan with Noctua S12A PWM. All well and good until I started the system.
Issue(s): Went through the whole spin-up & spin-down issue and went ahead and applied the solution by learning to adjust the thresholds for all three fans (took about 10 hours to find the sweet spot). All good now with a very quite system. A big thanks for all the effort by multiple people by the by.
However, now the issue is due to the location of the drive cage with respect to the fan headers on this particular MB, and the lower RPM's of the side fans due to them being PWM (CPU temperature controlled), the drives temperatures have shot up from previous high of 45C to close to 50'C. This is a complete no-no for longer life of any HDD I understand.
Hence, looking for some insights into what can be done at this point.
1. Should I just go back to the fans which came with the case? (all three non-PWM with 1100-1200 RPM constant speeds)
2. Should try getting non-PWM Ncctua fans?
3. Should try different Noctua fans?
Any help is appreciated.
Recently built myself a NAS server with the hardware mentioned in my signature. Was working well until the ambient temperature (due to start of Summer), starting going up. And so did my HDD temps. (Min: 35C; Max: 43C-45C under load). So, per my research for the WD Reds and HDD's in general, thought of changing the cabinet (side) fans with Noctua & the rear exhaust fan with Noctua NF-P12 PWM(*2 & rear exhaust fan with Noctua S12A PWM. All well and good until I started the system.
Issue(s): Went through the whole spin-up & spin-down issue and went ahead and applied the solution by learning to adjust the thresholds for all three fans (took about 10 hours to find the sweet spot). All good now with a very quite system. A big thanks for all the effort by multiple people by the by.
However, now the issue is due to the location of the drive cage with respect to the fan headers on this particular MB, and the lower RPM's of the side fans due to them being PWM (CPU temperature controlled), the drives temperatures have shot up from previous high of 45C to close to 50'C. This is a complete no-no for longer life of any HDD I understand.
Hence, looking for some insights into what can be done at this point.
1. Should I just go back to the fans which came with the case? (all three non-PWM with 1100-1200 RPM constant speeds)
2. Should try getting non-PWM Ncctua fans?
3. Should try different Noctua fans?
Any help is appreciated.