On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 22:07, Chris Hanson <cmhan...@eschatologist.net> wrote: > > One of the drives failed and I’d set the drives up as a single volume, oops. > > I brought up Windows temporarily to do the one firmware update I didn’t seem > to be able to do any other way (the storage controller) and then reinstalled > NetBSD. > > Now that I’ve reinstalled, have a dmesg: > https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=5512 > > There’s going to be one more reinstall in my future, once my LFF drive cage > arrives and I set up large 3.5in SATA disks. > > My experience so far is that putting in a random disk that I had laying > around causes the fans to spin up to 70some percent for a period of time, and > then the system appears to adapt to the drive and get quiet again--right now > it’s barely noticeable. We’ll see what happens when I build LLVM...
If you do find fans spinning more than you like it may be worth replacing it/them with quieter/more efficient models - I did this for the main case fan on a Dell T320 and now have it running with a 16 core E5-2450L and 8 SATA drives without any noticeable noise under normal conditions David
