I'm interested to know if anyone has a Netgear SC101 and has made any
modifications to keep the drives cooler?

thx

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Piggy wrote:
and should run just a bit cooler. So much for theory. Before I got
disgusted with mine and put it in the "closet of computational debris" I
found that placing an 80mm 120Vac cooling fan a few inches away from it
and blowing across the fins dropped the temperature nicely. I intend to
rip the thing apart one of these fine days when nothing else is going on
and to install the guts in a more sensible enclosure with a cooling fan
to see if it works better that way. Sad, really, because the overall
idea wasn't that bad and it was cheap but they totally blew the
implementation.

Oh BTW the breaking point came when their client software went bad on
this machine and then totally fried my XP installation demanding a
ground-up re-install. Up until that happened I hadn't gotten into that
situation since W98 days.

--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com

"John McGaw" <nobody@nowh.ere> wrote in message
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Hello John,

I have the latest firmware and version of storage central but I find it gets
2 hot now I have 2 Diamond Max drives in it. The casing is to hot to keep my
hand on for more than a few seconds, so that must be over 45 deg C! To get
over this at the moment I have a desk top fan next to the drive and the
plastic sides removed. I was hoping to find information on modifying the
enclosure or adding a fan to keep the temperatures down.

I had horrendous problems when I first purchased the drive with data loss
and not connecting to the drives, after a software and firmware upgrade the
drive appears more stable but I still cant fully trust it to keep my data
safe, the problem for me is the drive is cheap and what's the alternative
for the same cost?

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"John McGaw" <nobody@nowh.ere> wrote in message
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Piggy <piggy@sty.com> wrote

Those Maxtors wont last long at those sorts
of temps. They hate running at elevated temps.

Yeah, you'll get drive death if you dont fix the cooling.

The drives surviving is more important than price.

Ignore the troll.


Rod Speed wrote:

Piggy wrote:
I ran mine at first with a single 400gB Seagate and that wasn't _too_
hot to handle but when the second one was added it started to seem like
barbecue time when I was doing prolonged reads or writes -- like backing
up from a system on the network. Come to think of it, that finned top
surface _does_ look like it might belong on some sort of low-budget
burger grille.

I theorized at first that punching holes in the front and an 80mm-or-so
fan piggybacked on the back might help but then I realized that there
was so little space around the drives that getting any sort of airflow
was going to be difficult. Thus evolved the current plan of fabricating
a case of some sort where there _is_ airspace around the drives. This
scheme makes sense only when one has a reputation as a bodger to live up
to and I'd never suggest that your regular computer user consider it
unless they have time (and/or money) to burn. I at least have the former
and a formidable junk box to draw upon.

--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com