DS210J

welshdragon · 16 Jul 2011 at 22:26

Right,

The fan on my DS210J which I bought fomr the MM is making a bit of a racket. Can these be changed easily does anyone know? ie unplug old fan, plug in new fan or are the soldered to the board?

Also, if they are easily changed can anyone recommend a fan?

Duke · 16 Jul 2011 at 22:37

I looked into changing the one on my 207+ and it didn't seem that hard. Open it up and have a look. I think there was some info on the Synology forum.

welshdragon · 17 Jul 2011 at 10:06

I've had a look around and can't find much. Shall have to get the trusty screwdriver out! The 211j is a standard push in connector, fingers crossed.

shine · 17 Jul 2011 at 10:23

Try this:

http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_silence_the_DiskStation_207+

It's for an older model but it should still give you enough information.

Duke · 17 Jul 2011 at 11:42

Thats the page I was referring to but couldn't find

welshdragon · 17 Jul 2011 at 15:57

Cool cheers guys, seems straight forward enough.

Just spotted this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-035-AK&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=818

Going to use that as a new fan, encouraging that one of the reviews on it shows someone has already done as much on a qnap box.

welshdragon · 20 Jul 2011 at 19:18

Ordered new fan, will post results if it will be of any interest to anyone?

Duke · 20 Jul 2011 at 20:59

Yep, still looking to do mine at some point

welshdragon · 22 Jul 2011 at 12:56

Well, it's as if my fan suspects it is not long for this world, making hell of a rattle now. No sign of new fan yet

welshdragon · 23 Jul 2011 at 11:34

New fan arrived today and it was a 10 min job, though second time round could do it much quicker.

I removed the old fan, and where the 3 pin fan connector connect to the motherboard I removed the little plastic retainer it clips into leaving 3 bare pins on the mobo. Connected new fan in. Used a mix of silicone rubber pins and the screws. Booted no issues. Fan is very quiet, Now about that hard drive noise..............

ps temps have dropped down to 23c, will keep an eye and see if they stay there.

welshdragon · 25 Jul 2011 at 14:21

Right bit gutted, I've now started to get warnigns the fan has stopped/resumed. I've disabled the beep but a touch concerned about the fan now.

Uhtred · 25 Jul 2011 at 14:32

is that because of the Auto Thermal Sensor?

Duke · 25 Jul 2011 at 14:44

Could be the RPM is too low and it doesn't like like it? Long as the temps are fine, I wouldn't be too worried.

welshdragon · 25 Jul 2011 at 16:14

Uhtred said:
is that because of the Auto Thermal Sensor?

It might be, not too sure.

Duke said:
Could be the RPM is too low and it doesn't like like it? Long as the temps are fine, I wouldn't be too worried.

It seems to have stopped now. The fan can spin to about 2900 I think.

Shall keep an eye on it. Otherwise the system seems to like it, hd temps are down and teh fan turned itself off completely earlier due to low temps.

welshdragon · 29 Jul 2011 at 18:07

In fairness to synology, emailed them about the fan and they checked my device which is apparantly still under warranty.. huzah they are sending me a new fan free of charge

welshdragon · 4 Aug 2011 at 15:39

New fan from synlogy arrived. OMG QUIET. Even at teh highest setting in DSM I cannot hear the fan above my hard drives!

Duke · 4 Aug 2011 at 16:11

What happened to the new fan you bought?

welshdragon · 4 Aug 2011 at 17:30

Well it was running fine, no errors then about a day or two ago it started giving motification errors that the fan had stopped and then resumed. I assume it was stopping due to the temps being nice and low but couldn't work out how to disable the notifications. Concerned about it I emailed synology who said my drive was in warranty (really surprised) and they'd get a new fan out to me. I cannot believe how much better the fan is.