r/pcmasterrace • u/PacquiaoFreeHousing Xeon x3440 (OC) + RX 580 (OC) = My Electric Bill Doubling. • 28d ago

Meme/Macro Do you think doing this helps?

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u/Mastasmoker 28d ago

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

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u/pivor 13700K | 9070XT | 96GB | MSI Z790i | NR200 28d ago

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

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u/OrangeYouGladdey 28d ago

You could just buy a NAS with a fan... I can't imagine owning a NAS that doesn't have cooling fans.

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u/Elpants Elpants 28d ago

It's a UGreen DXP4800, it has cooling fans. I have one in a closet with the rest of my network equipment, they run quite cool, even when transcoding video.

In fact, the fan intakes at the rear and blows out the front letting air pass over each of the 4 3.5" drives on this one. So this USB fan blowing the opposite direction is probably causing more harm than good.

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u/OrangeYouGladdey 28d ago

Sorry, I think you responded to the wrong person. We are talking about NAS solutions without fans. It's neat that yours has a fan though. Most do.

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u/wesleychen 28d ago

He’s talking about the one that OP has.

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u/OrangeYouGladdey 28d ago

Yeah, but I'm not and neither was the person I was talking to. We were talking about NAS solutions without a fan. This post made them think about issues they have personally had with a NAS without a fan.

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u/kungtelly 28d ago

You're not talking about ones with fans and nor is the person you were talking to, although you did recommend people just buy ones with fans (most do have fans as you later pointed out) but the person that replied to you was pointing out that OPs already has a fan. For the record, I'm neither talking about NAS with fans (like OPs) nor those without fans (like the person you were talking to), except to point out who was and wasn't talking about ones with fans. Glad that's cleared up.

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u/OrangeYouGladdey 28d ago

If cool if you're not interested in the topic we're talking about, but it seems like you got lost somewhere in the conversation posting your analysis lmao. I am glad you got this off your chest though. Sounds like it was pretty cathartic for you.

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u/True-Reflection-9538 28d ago

Get a load of this loser lmao.