tony draper
2nd Apr 2008, 11:02
Slightly off topic from puters,mate of mine bought one of the Hard disk recorders for recording the output of the CCTV cameras he has on his property,went over and rigged it up for him a week ago,works fine and the recorded image quality is first class.
The problem is it has a cooling fan that makes a noise that his whole family find exceeding irritating,didn't seem that bad to me, about the same as a computer,at full steam there is nothing wrong with the fan, it just emits a high pitched hum,anyway went across yesterday and opened the kit up to see whats what ,the fan is just a standard small 12 volt type that usually fits on top of the CPU heat sink.anyway I moved the fan from it's position on the back panel to the base over the vent slots,to me it sounded quieter but the chaps says his family are still bleating.
Just thinking,it has a single 350 Gig hard disk dunno what the CPU in it is but it does not even have a heat sink on it and it was barely warm to the touch,,any opinions on the wisdom of disconnecting the fan altogether?
This kit has the facility for a second removable hard disk but at the mo it has only one and he may not bother getting the second hard disk,how much heat does a hard disk put out?
The problem is it has a cooling fan that makes a noise that his whole family find exceeding irritating,didn't seem that bad to me, about the same as a computer,at full steam there is nothing wrong with the fan, it just emits a high pitched hum,anyway went across yesterday and opened the kit up to see whats what ,the fan is just a standard small 12 volt type that usually fits on top of the CPU heat sink.anyway I moved the fan from it's position on the back panel to the base over the vent slots,to me it sounded quieter but the chaps says his family are still bleating.
Just thinking,it has a single 350 Gig hard disk dunno what the CPU in it is but it does not even have a heat sink on it and it was barely warm to the touch,,any opinions on the wisdom of disconnecting the fan altogether?
This kit has the facility for a second removable hard disk but at the mo it has only one and he may not bother getting the second hard disk,how much heat does a hard disk put out?