[geeks] netgear fan replacement help

[Lionel Peterson]

I have 'ghetto' white box servers, a 24x switch, KVM, and UPS setup in my
garage datacenter, oddly the only thing that makes any noise is the Dell KVM!

It's one of their remote access Cat5 (not IP) KVMs that can manage one local,
one remote user simultaneously. I should probably replace the fans but the
noise isn't that bad.

I guess it's the price you pay for using data center hw in a residential
setting.

Lionel

> On Feb 7, 2019, at 3:02 PM, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net> wrote:
>
>> On 2/7/19 3:23 PM, Sandwich Maker wrote:
>> just discovered the fan in my netgear fs524 has started howling.  it's
>> been living next to the dsl modem and demarc in my unheated basement
>> for several years but the recent bitter cold may have affected it.
>>
>> snooping and poking around on the net reveals that it's a 40mm*2 *
>> 20mm 5v 7.5-8.0 cfm fan - right?  i'm not sure of the power
>> connector though.  can anyone here verify the details?
>>
>> ebay shows 2 vendors i've never heard of with exact-replacement fans
>> for $20, but i'd prefer to buy from newark or digikey if only i knew
>> exactly what to order...
>
>
> Do yourself a favor.  There are magnetic levitation fans to be had in
> that size, from Sunon among others.  And the things are silent AF.
>
> I put 40mm Sunons into a Netgear switch of mine about 15 years ago when
> its original fans failed.  Standing next to the switch you could barely
> hear the fans running.
>
>
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