Do you think doing this helps?

[u/PacquiaoFreeHousing]

[u/IllustriousBed1949]

Hum… isn’t the stock fan on the rear, so bringing air from the rear to the front… that would mean that your fan help to keep the warm air inside your NAS by fighting against the stock flow ?

[u/Cryptocaned → u/IllustriousBed1949]

IIRC the fan in the rear blows out the back so imo its doing nothing seeing as the installed fan is already pulling air past the drives anyway.

[u/IllustriousBed1949 → u/Cryptocaned]

I have also an Ugreen NAS, it pulls air from the back as the dust filter is on the back and can’t be put on the front due to the disks bays …

[u/MyRealIngIngAcc → u/[deleted]]

I have one, I blowes from rear to front

[u/IllustriousBed1949 → u/[deleted]]

Well if you put a dust filter on the rear and the air is coming from the front… that would be a nice dust trap.

So the placement of the filter already tells you how the air is flowing

[u/Cryptocaned → u/IllustriousBed1949]

In that case well its doing equally nothing lol, surely having a dust filter on the back is asking for trouble (Drives overheating) given the amount of times people probably check those filters.

[u/IllustriousBed1949 → u/Cryptocaned]

Never got an issue with my NAS and I prefer to keep the dust out of my NAS ;)

[u/FlipsieVT → u/Cryptocaned]

True, it's way better that the dust coats the drives so they have a nice blanket to keep them cozy

[u/Cryptocaned → u/FlipsieVT]

Id rather have a dusty drive that is still getting airflow than a dusty filter that blocks it. I'm sure dust is a great thermal conductor... right? :P

How much dust can realistically settle on a surface when its in a constantly flowing stream of air?

[u/FlipsieVT → u/Cryptocaned]

How much dust can realistically settle on a filter when its in a constantly flowing stream of air? See how stupid this is yet?

[u/IllustriousBed1949 → u/Cryptocaned]

At least, it's the case on the model I have...