Fan controller for hard drives

pillow

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Hi all,

I have a Silverstone DS380 which has 8x 3.5 inch drives currently. Those you you who own this case know about its terrible cooling solution.

There are two fans whose primary purpose is to cool the drives. My current fans are quiet enough but aren't powerful enough when the drives are loaded so I'm looking at some Noctua industrial 3k rpm ones. The thing is I don't want them running at 3k all the time and would like to control them based on hard drive temperature. I guess what I'm looking for is some sort of usb fan controller that has software that allows me to setup fan curves based off of hard drive temperatures. Does such a thing exist? Because I'm struggling to find anything that does what I need. Closest I have found is NZXT grid but I think these only monitor CPU and GPU temps.

Huge thanks for any help!
 
Look for a fan controller that has sensor
Wires
You just stick those wherever you want
The temperature monitored from
Forget which one I had in the past that had sensors
 
The problem with probes is they are difficult to use if I want to be able to hot swap the drives easily.

That Aqua Computer solution looks promising. Never heard of them but sounds perfect. Thank you!
 
pillow said:
The problem with probes is they are difficult to use if I want to be able to hot swap the drives easily.
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You could put it close to drives and then compare how its reading relates to drive's temperature.
Which actually aren't fully reliable either, because of different drives possibly having sensor in different spots.
Aquasuite allows using temperature offsets, averaging temps from multiple sources and pretty much everything. (except kitchen sink)
https://forum.aquacomputer.de/weitere-foren/english-forum/109453-breaking-all-limits-aquasuite-x-6/
 
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