Question regarding the FAN used by WD My Cloud EX2

The fan control program is still there - the temperature file’s contents were most likely pushed into the settings db on the drive.

I’ve been shuffling data to the new drives and thrashing them for the past two days - fan never came on, temp never climed over 49 degrees, but stayed pretty much at that level the entire time.

Rebuilding the array really pushes the temps up (much more than just writing to the drive).

I really, really want to see a selectable, more aggressive fan profile in the next firmware update.

I imagine that in the lower states, a good weekend A/C failure would see that poor drive roast itself to death.

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