TrevorX
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- Mar 10, 2015
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Solved - all errors cleared.
I pulled one of those drives out and ran it next to the NAS with a 120mm fan lying on top of it, and it did indeed keep temps under 40°C. But with the drives stacked in the hotswap enclosures they are heat-soaking each other. I even pulled the whole caddy out and ran it separately and it didn't make any appreciable difference to temps - the fans just aren't pulling enough air through.
So it looks like I may have to do a complete redesign at some point, but I don't have the money for a new enclosure. Those caddys were several hundred dollars between them. What I'm thinking at this point is upping the speed of the exhaust fan in the top and sealing off all other ventilation, forcing negative case pressure to suck more air through the HDD caddys. I can't control the fan in the PSU unfortunately. I'm going to replace the Noctua exhaust fan with a Gentle Typhoon and see how that goes...
Thanks again for all your help and suggestions, very much appreciated
I pulled one of those drives out and ran it next to the NAS with a 120mm fan lying on top of it, and it did indeed keep temps under 40°C. But with the drives stacked in the hotswap enclosures they are heat-soaking each other. I even pulled the whole caddy out and ran it separately and it didn't make any appreciable difference to temps - the fans just aren't pulling enough air through.
So it looks like I may have to do a complete redesign at some point, but I don't have the money for a new enclosure. Those caddys were several hundred dollars between them. What I'm thinking at this point is upping the speed of the exhaust fan in the top and sealing off all other ventilation, forcing negative case pressure to suck more air through the HDD caddys. I can't control the fan in the PSU unfortunately. I'm going to replace the Noctua exhaust fan with a Gentle Typhoon and see how that goes...
Thanks again for all your help and suggestions, very much appreciated