Does this unit have a fan? Has anyone had heat problems with a large WD red HD?
1658621
Got this for a friend. I don't recall there being a fan. Instead, the whole case is an aluminum heat-sink. Works great.
1658622
No! It hasn't! Extremely hot without a Fan, I must mod a Fan for him:( (it must be if you want your hdd working 24/7). Anyway It's almost beautiful on the tablet with an MacPC :)
1945693
No.I have 3 of them sitting in my closet without fans, they are powered wia USB hub and RaspberryPI, since the hub has ports far apart, there is good enough cooling to the miners, they are running 24/7 and are working great, they were built to handle the temperatures ... However if you want to have large number of them, and in USB ports close to another, get a fan. Simple as that.
317338
Have not noticed any unusual heat and the drive is nearly silent. Has been working flawlessly since installed.
983943
It has a small fan on the back of the base of the laptop. I leave it streaming videos on a carpet floor for hours and it never heats up because it has solid state hard drive.
1010214
I have one that I leave connected to my computer constantly, and I rarely turn it off. The hard drive only spins up when it's in use, so if you don't use it much, heat isn't an issue. And as long as you are in a temperature-controlled room that stays below 85 to 90 degrees, it shouldn't matter how much you use it. A fan is only necessary if the ambient temperatures is very hot.
239434
5400 is slow. It also allows the drive to produce significantly less heat. Pack several drives into a small space and heat becomes an issue. I don't need my NAS to be fast. I do need it to be reliable. Cooking the drive in the middle caused me trouble in the past.
2222796
I've only had this HD drive for a short while so my comments are limited by that experience. I have not felt any heat build up while transferring large files for long periods of time. I can't specifically address the issue of keeping this HD plugged in all the time, but like any HD, it's only active when called upon. I think it's a great cost value when balancing the 500GB capacity and the ease of use with my MacBook Pro.
607938
It doesn't have a fan but with a 2.5 hard drive that I use in it I haven't had any over heating issues, I also believe that without a full incloser it gives it room to cool.
1010213
You should be good to go. I don't keep it up all the time, but I have left it connected for weeks at a time. The hard drive is out in the open so it won't really overheat, and there is a power switch on it, so you can turn it off but leave it all setup when the drive is not in use.
1457026
I think it has a small fan. i am using it at present and can heard a very quiet motor that is not the hard drive. If I leave it running for some hours it gets comfortably warm.
962627
I am currently using 4 Western Digital 3TB NAS drives, no heat issues or any other issues.
1447920
Yes natively supports 3 TB has no fan and has never gotten hot and it runs in my Linux machine 24 /7Works with OSX , windows and Linux never an issue excellent hardware
1366300
If you are talking about a hard drive, I'm kinda partial to WD. I've had a few and none have given me any problem. If LG optical dvd - same comment
607936
No Fan. A fan is not required. The hard drive protrudes above the unit and is air cooled.
2022065
It comes with a very small fan which you can attach to the heatsink but it virtually doesn't need a fan. It idles about 39c and I have yet to see it get over 48c under a normal load
1481079
The drive spins down according to your computers power settings (as all usbs will) but it never turns off.While spinning its not very noisy (you won't hear it in an office) but its not silent.I'm pretty sure its got wd green cavier as the drive.
1010215
That depends on how the drive is getting used. A drive that gets used constantly for extended periods needs a fan blowing on it under any circumstances or it will fail. The ambient temperature doesn't matter. A fan blowing on the drive cools it off. This is not meant for a permanent installation of a hard drive.