July 9, 201114 yr http://cl.ly/2g1T0I2b1y3f2w3d3r2E Back story: Upgraded to a new mobo yesterday (see signature) and added another BR10i. Previously had another LGA 775 Supermicro board with a Promise TX4 and onboard SATA + (2) IBM BR10i's. Also upgraded my Norco 4224 to the 120mm fan mid plate. Set the fans to optimal in the BIOS and that wasn't cutting it. They're now set to standard to bring them up in speed. Still the drive temps seem high. Also, I had purchased the Norco 7 molex adapter set but after talking to a friend with the same case (and an unRAID fanatic) he told me some people on the forums had odd power issues with them. Since I had the mid plate off, I decided to wire my Corsair PSU directly to the drives. A tight fit with the new mid plate but one that will hopefully cause less issues down the road. So with my previous motherboard, I never had drive temps for the drives on the BR10's. Figured it was a beta bug that would be fixed eventually. I never remember the other drives (on the TX4 and onboard) running this hot. Fast forward to this new board and another BR10 now, out of the blue, I see drive temps for all drives. This is good....or so I thought. The drives are running hot. In this picture, the mover script is running so I expect them to be warmer. But they only drop about 5-10C when the mover script isn't running. I remember the drives being much cooler when on the TX4/SATA so I'm not sure if: a.) these new Coolermaster Blade Master 120mm fans aren't cutting it b.) the BR10i's are still going through some growing pains as far as support and drive temps are buggy in the beta. This whole post might have to be moved to the beta forum but I figured this might be a good place to start. OH and btw, since I rebuilt this box last night, the top cover is off. It's def warm on the east coast but this is in my basement, which is a little warm right now, but it's out in the open since I'm still working on things. Any help would be great, thanks.
July 9, 201114 yr http://cl.ly/2g1T0I2b1y3f2w3d3r2E Back story: Upgraded to a new mobo yesterday (see signature) and added another BR10i. Previously had another LGA 775 Supermicro board with a Promise TX4 and onboard SATA + (2) IBM BR10i's. Also upgraded my Norco 4224 to the 120mm fan mid plate. Set the fans to optimal in the BIOS and that wasn't cutting it. They're now set to standard to bring them up in speed. Still the drive temps seem high. Also, I had purchased the Norco 7 molex adapter set but after talking to a friend with the same case (and an unRAID fanatic) he told me some people on the forums had odd power issues with them. Since I had the mid plate off, I decided to wire my Corsair PSU directly to the drives. A tight fit with the new mid plate but one that will hopefully cause less issues down the road. So with my previous motherboard, I never had drive temps for the drives on the BR10's. Figured it was a beta bug that would be fixed eventually. I never remember the other drives (on the TX4 and onboard) running this hot. Fast forward to this new board and another BR10 now, out of the blue, I see drive temps for all drives. This is good....or so I thought. The drives are running hot. In this picture, the mover script is running so I expect them to be warmer. But they only drop about 5-10C when the mover script isn't running. I remember the drives being much cooler when on the TX4/SATA so I'm not sure if: a.) these new Coolermaster Blade Master 120mm fans aren't cutting it b.) the BR10i's are still going through some growing pains as far as support and drive temps are buggy in the beta. This whole post might have to be moved to the beta forum but I figured this might be a good place to start. OH and btw, since I rebuilt this box last night, the top cover is off. It's def warm on the east coast but this is in my basement, which is a little warm right now, but it's out in the open since I'm still working on things. Any help would be great, thanks. I think they are too hot. General advice here is that 45C is about the hottest you ever want to see your drives. Some people feel that mid 30s is optimal, although I prefer cooler. I've had low failures with winter temps in the low to mid-twenties, and summer temps in the mid 30s, maxing around 40C. I would definitely be concerned about anything over 50C. The controller the drive is attached to should not impact the temperature. If you have the case open, it would definitely negatively affect the airfllow in the case. You need to make sure that you use the fans to create airflow through the case, forcing air between the drives. Normally you have fans pulling air IN from the front of the case, accross the drives, and then have other fans on the rear of the case forcing air out. Depending on the case, you may need to seal case openings to force air to flow past the drives. It does not take that much air, if properly channeled, to maintain the continuous flow past the drives necessary to keep them cool. Update: Missed the fact you're using the Norco case. I think if you keep the cover on that the case should keep the drives reasonably cool. Seems those fans are variable speed. If your drives are running hot, you might need to run them in higher CFM mode.
July 9, 201114 yr OH and btw, since I rebuilt this box last night, the top cover is off. It's def warm on the east coast but this is in my basement, which is a little warm right now, but it's out in the open since I'm still working on things. To be clear, when you took the screen shot the top cover of your 4220 case was off and you have never had measurement of the temperature of the drive with the cover on until now? I would suggest looking again at the temperature with the cover on. Basically, with a sealed case the idea is that air is going to be drawn in from the front over the drives, by the fans in the middle and expelled out through the back, thus cooling the system. With the top off you won't be getting the air flow over the drives. I get about ~5 to 10 degrees increase in drive temperature when I have the case open.
July 9, 201114 yr Author You're right, I never had a measurement with it off. Putting it back on definitely helped. Also, turning up my fans to the most they'd go helped alot. Check out the temps now (rsync'ing massive amounts of data over right now) http://cl.ly/0m3o0G1H2g1H3m1v3q3t Thanks for your help!
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