Hello,
When thinking about diagnosing the cause of a loud fan on a drobo NAS product (in general), what are the potentional causes?
I have thought / read of previously:
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[]The fan is loud at baseline
[]The bearing is going bad on the fan
[*]a drive is loose in the machine (not sure how this causes a loud fan), but others have reported this
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Thank you,
Most likely just a worn fan. Most computer fans (which Drobo uses) have sleeve bearings and are the cheapest to build. There’s a few threads in the forums detailing how to replace the fan.
If it is loud… with a worn bearing… how long until it breaks?
It will most likely spin for a long time…longer than you could stand the noise. I’ve never actually seen one stop rotating because of a worn bearing.