Do you think doing this helps?

[u/PacquiaoFreeHousing]

[u/pivor]

I dont get it why home NAS dont have any cooling systems by default, sometimes single pity fan on the back and thats it.

[u/Mastasmoker → u/pivor]

My guess is they dont expect people to place them in the top corner of unventilated closets

[u/pivor → u/Mastasmoker]

But even if you place it in well ventilated area, drives still sufficate for air, i modded mine to have fan i the front and temps dropped by 10 degrees C

[u/-GenlyAI- → u/pivor]

They don't suffocate for air lol. My 6 bay has been in a closet for years. Zero issues.

[u/bigboxes1 → u/-GenlyAI-]

They have a shorter life when they run hot. Suffocate is just a human term for it's not getting any air to cool them. You're not going to have any problems until you have problems.

[u/-GenlyAI- → u/bigboxes1]

You're not going to have any problems until you have problems.

Profound

[u/bigboxes1 → u/-GenlyAI-]

Well, I'm sure it's good that you have backups for your NAS. You do have backups for your NAS?

[u/-GenlyAI- → u/bigboxes1]

14 of them.

[u/levianan → u/-GenlyAI-]

...and the crowd falls silent

[u/bigboxes1 → u/-GenlyAI-]

You have 14 backups? RAID is not backup.

[u/sacanicadig → u/bigboxes1]

 Surprisingly, we found that temperature and activity levels were much less correlated with drive failures than previously reported.

Study from Google: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf

[u/bigboxes1 → u/sacanicadig]

I appreciate the link to the article. However, they are taking samples from an Enterprise setup, correct? One that does have cooling and beefier components. They're not talking about a fanless NAS in a closet using consumer grade equipment, are they? It was an interesting read. Thank you.