Subj : Pushing It... To : All From : poindexter FORTRAN Date : Mon Jan 16 2023 16:29:00 I have an old Synology DS1010+ that I bought used, no idea how much it has been used before. The fans were starting to make noise and I was getting complaints of a system fan failing (then the next minute, the fault clears.) This happens once a day. I took the unit apart, gave it a good cleaning, and lubricated the fans. Surprisingly, all is well, nothing broke, and no screws left over. The only problem now is a drive that makes a high-pitched warble - loud enough to hear in my office. I could play it safe and put the NAS inside my armoire to quiet it down, or take the drives out of the array one-by-one to see which one's the offending drive. I have 5 2TB drives of various vintages and brands - one Western Digital Red, a couple of seagates, and 2 white-label drives. Surprising that it works at all. If you don't hear from me for a while, I took the left-hand path and am rebuilding my array from scratch. .... The inconsistency principle --- MultiMail/Win v0.52 * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122) .