![]() Having the stand fan blow nearby the EX4 (ie. Direct airflow over the EX4 gave the best results, and did not block a doorway. The idea didn't work because the hallway outside the room is also just about as warm as the office. I have tried your solution before, although I used a stand fan. I acknowledge that unless I can cool the room down, the drives will run hot on a hot day, basic physics. The temperatures will still rise, and on a hot 35 deg C day, the drives will still be hot. A primitive and not bullet proof way to do this is to put a floor fan in the middle of the door way blowing the air out. The only real way to get good cooling is to remove the heat from the room which the system is stading. Sure they might create a breeze over the drives, but the temperature will still raise. More fans will not help you pull down the temperature if your room is cooking at 30C. A NAS that has to be turned off half the time for 4-5 months of the year is junk and not fit to serve me and my household. But the drives still run too hot when temperatures go above 35 deg C. My short term solution is to point a stand fan straight at the box and just blast it 24/7. I disassembled the EX4 for a clean and made sure the fan was working - it definitely is. ![]() On a 35 deg C day, the hottest drives thermal throttle at 65 deg C under light load. On a 30 deg C day, the hottest drives run at 59-62 deg C depending on load. No, we are not getting an AC for this room, not that we use AC much anyway. No, putting the NAS in the living or the dining room is not an option. The room is usually the 3rd coolest in the house but can get stuffy with a lack of ventilation. store room with a computer and printer) near our network switch (we do not have ethernet wiring around this old house). This was the first summer it had 4 drives (Ironwolf) in it, previously it had 2. I feel like I should provide some context for some my apparently exorbitant cooling requests. I'll keep an eye out on older chassis then. If you’ve got heavy cooling requirements and need more than 6 drives or something it’s not really home use class I guess. As for drive bays the old stuff has more drive bays than the new stuff unless you want some sort of workstation thing. ![]() There is much in the way of cooling to do. It’s a box of hard drives with just enough. Any recommendations for a good quality PCIE to SATA card are appreciated. TOTAL (before unRAID license, SATA cables and PCIE to SATA card): $667. Silence is appreciated, but direct HDD cooling is paramount during hot weather (easily 40 deg C or 104 deg F). ![]() Also, will sit in our home office with very tight space – the case I’ve selected is the biggest it can be. But I haven’t looked too deeply into this aspect yet. I want to experiment with running a Windows VM on this (among other tinkering), to potentially consolidate this NAS with my mom’s PC. Will eventually upgrade to 8 X 8 TB (2 of which are parity) drives and a 500 Gb mirrored cache + SSD for Plex metadata. Will be deployed with 5 X 8TB (2 of which are parity) drives and a 500 Gb cache SSD. Plex (if possible, eventually transcoding 3 x 1080p streams with ease). NAS for home file storage servicing 4 home users. Budget of AU$700 (EDIT: ~ US$470) without drives. My parts choices are based on what I’ve been able to find at my local store and I prefer to use commonly available parts. I was inspired by the Brian’s Econonas 2019 build.ĭear Mods: if this is better suited for the New Builds and Planning forum, please move it there. I’m new to the world of home servers so I’m looking for someone to check my homework.
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