New poster and FreeNAS (soon-to-be) rookie.
I have been doing a ton of research about building a FreeNAS system and I am prepared to start purchasing some hardware. The first order of business for me is a tower chassis but I am concerned about hard drive temperatures. I don't have a server rack and don't plan on having anything larger than 6 drives so I plan on sticking with a tower.
Background: I am going to be building a NAS with (6) 4TB WD Red hard drives that will be used as a Plex server for my media library, pictures and videos of my kids/family, and possibly to hold business documents if I end up starting my own pension administration business in a couple years.
Currently I have a 4TB 7200 RPM Seagate hard drive in one of my computers that would spike to between 45-51 degrees Celsius under load which really scared me. I ended up buying a spring loaded heatsink/fan combo that I could put on the hard drive and it fits perfectly inside a 5.25" drive bay and now the hard drive hits 30-32 degrees Celsius under the heaviest load which is great. The downside is that the little fans on the front of that cooler are pretty loud and noisy and I was hoping to avoid that with the NAS that I end up building. I have read that the 180mm fans on the Silverstone Raven RV04 cases are quiet and push a lot of air but they aren't situated in front of the 5.25" drive bays.
Question 1.....Am I overly worried about the drive temperatures?
Question 2....Are 30-32 degrees Celsius drive temperatures possible without hard drive heatsinks and fans? I would imagine that the temperatures of an itty bitty crammed 5 hard drive cage would be frightening without heat sinks....
Question 3....Anyone know how difficult it would be to fabricate a 5.25" drive cage in front of the huge fans in that RV04 case? I imagine I would end up riveting the sides of the cage to the case somehow...
I have been searching the web for case modifications like this but nobody seems to bother dealing with hard drive heat all that much. It is all about the cpu and graphics card in everything I find....and I won't even have a graphics card.
Thanks in advance for any input or direction anyone can provide.
I have been doing a ton of research about building a FreeNAS system and I am prepared to start purchasing some hardware. The first order of business for me is a tower chassis but I am concerned about hard drive temperatures. I don't have a server rack and don't plan on having anything larger than 6 drives so I plan on sticking with a tower.
Background: I am going to be building a NAS with (6) 4TB WD Red hard drives that will be used as a Plex server for my media library, pictures and videos of my kids/family, and possibly to hold business documents if I end up starting my own pension administration business in a couple years.
Currently I have a 4TB 7200 RPM Seagate hard drive in one of my computers that would spike to between 45-51 degrees Celsius under load which really scared me. I ended up buying a spring loaded heatsink/fan combo that I could put on the hard drive and it fits perfectly inside a 5.25" drive bay and now the hard drive hits 30-32 degrees Celsius under the heaviest load which is great. The downside is that the little fans on the front of that cooler are pretty loud and noisy and I was hoping to avoid that with the NAS that I end up building. I have read that the 180mm fans on the Silverstone Raven RV04 cases are quiet and push a lot of air but they aren't situated in front of the 5.25" drive bays.
Question 1.....Am I overly worried about the drive temperatures?
Question 2....Are 30-32 degrees Celsius drive temperatures possible without hard drive heatsinks and fans? I would imagine that the temperatures of an itty bitty crammed 5 hard drive cage would be frightening without heat sinks....
Question 3....Anyone know how difficult it would be to fabricate a 5.25" drive cage in front of the huge fans in that RV04 case? I imagine I would end up riveting the sides of the cage to the case somehow...
I have been searching the web for case modifications like this but nobody seems to bother dealing with hard drive heat all that much. It is all about the cpu and graphics card in everything I find....and I won't even have a graphics card.
Thanks in advance for any input or direction anyone can provide.