Is there a fan in this drive?
1889014
Great Question. It is completely enclosed, except for the 3 connections in the back. I do not remember hearing a fan.
1889015
no. and the drive is custom built from wd with all connectors on the drive. you cannot take out the drive inside it and use as internal drive on your computer.
1152631
There is a place for an optional fan, or maybe they just didn't bother to re-design the cabinet. I have three of these and I considered getting fans from Jameco or someplace but they run pretty cool. So I never bothered to put a fan in. So my answer is that it just appears that there is a fan in it. There is no fan in it and as far as I can tell it doesn't need on. One of my 3 drives is active 24/7, very active, as it records 2 (sometimes 3) video channels simultaneously and will also play one another video channel. So up to four open files at once and, well, the little green light flashes fast, a lot, what else can I say!
428124
It is not a drive. It is a *Drive Enclosure" that fits a 2.5" IDE HDD. Hope that helps.
317339
Hi,Heat none, noise lets says like a normal hard drive do, a little bit of noise.
751316
It does not have fan slots. It does contain a fan for the hard drive bay and the big fan over the board. It's open frame design lends itself to not needing more
206965
No fans I put in 6 hard drives and 2 cdroms 3.5 " the case is a little flimsy but other than that it its well worth the price.
1135100
This item does not come with cooling fan, just a heatsink. It is low profile ready.ThanksCopystars Support
1298555
If i'm understanding your basic question. All the fans are connected to the power supply by the molex cable. I do not recommend doing this. But i spliced a bunch of stuff to get mines to fit and look clean. If not, just invest sata cables. It does have all fans included, but you may have to invest in some extra adapters to power them all.
986924
There's two fans on the heatsink. About 4cm diameter. They're pretty quiet and only make a noticeable amount of noise of the cpu is heavily loaded.
432375
I've had this for so long now I've forgotten if this was an inside/outside fan. Best to ask the mfg to be sure. Sorry.
301040
There are no fans. This is not an active device that does any sort of processing.
85206
I don't know but I will say that this has turned out to be a noisy unit. I like quiet drives.
300349
No the drive is completely enclosed, but you should check to see if your unit is EIDE (ATA) or SATA (serial ATA) adapters are available should you need one.
210837
There are two small fans (80mm) on the lower back part of the case that can be configured to blow air to or from the hard disk trays. In my setup I have installed two Noctuas NF-R8 redux-1200 and all my 4 HD's runs cool and quiet.
2081373
I don't find it noisy. Since the enclosure is fanless, the only noise is when the drive is spinning.
327959
I'm not sure how high is your fan, I don't think it is necessary to put a fun under the ssd.
414157
I'm not sure what the power consumption is. I don't think there is a fan. I can feel the vibration of the disk spinning but it is so quite I don't think there is a fan. Cool to the touch so no heat issues. Much quieter than external HD I've had. It just is there running in the background... not noticeable at all