So I have a single drive, passively cooled, QNAP NAS box (much like this one) and in that NAS is a Seagate 7200 RPM drive. All I do with this is use it's built in Twonky Media to stream videos to my PS3 in the living room.
With the normal Seagate drive in there, things got hot. Not hot enough to impact performance but it was rather warm to the touch. Having just put a pair of EADS 1TB Western Digital drives in my dual drive Synology NAS (strikingly similar to this but not this one), I liked their thermal properties so I ordered another one for the QNAP.
Having put that one in, I have shed about 8-10 degrees. I know there are performance diferances between the two drives but for what I am using it for, this series of drives is 110% appropriate.
Moral of this here story... if your looking for drive with a good balance or capacity, price and thermals, look at this drive. its incredible the differance in this NAS.
With the normal Seagate drive in there, things got hot. Not hot enough to impact performance but it was rather warm to the touch. Having just put a pair of EADS 1TB Western Digital drives in my dual drive Synology NAS (strikingly similar to this but not this one), I liked their thermal properties so I ordered another one for the QNAP.
Having put that one in, I have shed about 8-10 degrees. I know there are performance diferances between the two drives but for what I am using it for, this series of drives is 110% appropriate.
Moral of this here story... if your looking for drive with a good balance or capacity, price and thermals, look at this drive. its incredible the differance in this NAS.
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