Free as in Nas
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- May 11, 2012
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Hey all,
I just bought a Freenas Mini as an upgrade for my old HP server, and I've immediately made a mistake. I ordered 4 7200rpm hard drives, and the noise level is not great. It is easily twice as loud, if not louder then my old server. Now it's not the Mini itself, which was pretty quiet with no drives in it, I think it's because I went with 7200rpm instead of 5400rpm drives. I'm not rich enough where I can get rid of 4 freshly bought hard drives, but my desktop machine is right by my Nas, and I am looking for options to reduce noise.
I went in and did the obvious stuff. I set the hard drives to standby after 5 minutes, set the APM to level 1, spindown on standby. I also set the acoustic level to Maximum (which I think is maximum noise reduction, but there is an entire thread about that question). Everything is still pretty loud, unfortunately. I hear disk access noise (it's pretty distinctive) about once every minute, even when the server is idle.
Anything else I can do to reduce noise?
At this point, I am willing to reduce performance to lower noise. If I could throttle my 7200 drives down to 5400, I would.
I just bought a Freenas Mini as an upgrade for my old HP server, and I've immediately made a mistake. I ordered 4 7200rpm hard drives, and the noise level is not great. It is easily twice as loud, if not louder then my old server. Now it's not the Mini itself, which was pretty quiet with no drives in it, I think it's because I went with 7200rpm instead of 5400rpm drives. I'm not rich enough where I can get rid of 4 freshly bought hard drives, but my desktop machine is right by my Nas, and I am looking for options to reduce noise.
I went in and did the obvious stuff. I set the hard drives to standby after 5 minutes, set the APM to level 1, spindown on standby. I also set the acoustic level to Maximum (which I think is maximum noise reduction, but there is an entire thread about that question). Everything is still pretty loud, unfortunately. I hear disk access noise (it's pretty distinctive) about once every minute, even when the server is idle.
Anything else I can do to reduce noise?
At this point, I am willing to reduce performance to lower noise. If I could throttle my 7200 drives down to 5400, I would.
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