I learned about Noctua fans through fan showdown so it’s nice to actually see someone put a fan to use in a practical sense instead of just blowing smoke through it. ❤
thank-you so much for this tutorial! I've got a few of these drives, and I thought I was shit out of luck with the one that was making noise. Did the fan swap, which was super easy, and it's working great! I'm gonna do this upgrade to my other drives too! Thanks again!
Thanks so much! Contacted GTech that first said the fan wasn't warranteed, AND if I open it the warranty is void! After some back and forth they decided to not be so awful. They gave some instructions, which I followed. Then a long delay and finally more and complicated hoops to jump through. So I came here instead, where I should have started! Thanks! 🙂
THANK YOU - Exactly the video I needed, and I enjoyed your deadpan "delivery". I have a G-RAID 24 TB, formatted as raid 1, and it started making the same horror movie noise. After realizing from your video it was just a fan, I followed your steps exactly - great information, particularly about the polarity. At first I thought I messed up, because the replacement fan didn't spin. But I tested the old fan (unit open - a little dangerous), and it didn't start spinning for a little while after the G-RAID was in use. But then the replacement fan would repeatedly budge just a little bit, then stop. I finally removed the "Low Noise Adapter" piece, and finally it worked. So my solution required I didn't use that part. But maybe you can help me on another item: When I was debugging what was going on, at first I thought is was one of the drives. I took one out, and could still mount the G-RAID and see all my files on that drive. I did the same thing, and the 2nd drive also showed all my files. But after replacing the fan, I started the G-RAID up with both drives, and now there is a solid RED light on the outside - typically it is white. I think I confused the RAID-1 setup by individually spinning each drive up separately and now I don't know what to do. I just happened to purchase another G-RAID from SanDisk so before I try anything next, I'm copying all the files off the one in question. (I also have a BackBlaze backup, but want to be very careful here..) The GRAID Configurator utilty is saying things are running in "Degraded" mode and has a button to press to "REPAIR", but I don't want to press it until my backup is done. Do you have any ideas on what to do? Either way, thanks a million! Things are much much quieter now!
I resolved my question. NEVER re-mount a RAID-1 G-RAID with only one of the drives in it. It throws things out of sync and considers the G-RAID to be running in "Degraded" mode and the indicator light turn a solid RED. The only way to fix this was to use the GRAID Configurator app's "REPAIR" mode, which initialized one of the drives, then slow rebuilt it from the contents of the other drive. BTW, this process kept crashing, so I ended up reformatting the G-RAID to RAID 0 , then back to RAID 1 (losing all data). After the indicator light was WHITE again, I copied back all the contents which I had luckily stored on my 2nd G-RAID drive before messing with all this. ALL IS GOOD now, and the replacement fan works great! Thanks again.
@@NettleReef I wanted to thank you for making this video, without it I don't think I would have tried replacing the fan in my drive. I had the same issue as yours, it was very loud, to the point were I could not use it and was considering replacing the drive. I ordered the fan you suggested. The first time they sent the wrong fan, it was not the correct voltage. The second fan was the correct voltage but the pins did not line up very well when I plugged it in. The directions showed how to hard wire the fan using by cutting the existing adaptor and wiring it to the supplied adaptor and that worked perfectly. Thanks again for making the video it was very helpful in resolving my issue.
I learned about Noctua fans through fan showdown so it’s nice to actually see someone put a fan to use in a practical sense instead of just blowing smoke through it. ❤
Glad you found this helpful. Fan still going strong and quiet.
thank-you so much for this tutorial! I've got a few of these drives, and I thought I was shit out of luck with the one that was making noise. Did the fan swap, which was super easy, and it's working great! I'm gonna do this upgrade to my other drives too! Thanks again!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks so much! Contacted GTech that first said the fan wasn't warranteed, AND if I open it the warranty is void! After some back and forth they decided to not be so awful. They gave some instructions, which I followed. Then a long delay and finally more and complicated hoops to jump through.
So I came here instead, where I should have started! Thanks! 🙂
Glad I could help!
THANK YOU - Exactly the video I needed, and I enjoyed your deadpan "delivery". I have a G-RAID 24 TB, formatted as raid 1, and it started making the same horror movie noise. After realizing from your video it was just a fan, I followed your steps exactly - great information, particularly about the polarity. At first I thought I messed up, because the replacement fan didn't spin. But I tested the old fan (unit open - a little dangerous), and it didn't start spinning for a little while after the G-RAID was in use. But then the replacement fan would repeatedly budge just a little bit, then stop. I finally removed the "Low Noise Adapter" piece, and finally it worked. So my solution required I didn't use that part.
But maybe you can help me on another item: When I was debugging what was going on, at first I thought is was one of the drives. I took one out, and could still mount the G-RAID and see all my files on that drive. I did the same thing, and the 2nd drive also showed all my files. But after replacing the fan, I started the G-RAID up with both drives, and now there is a solid RED light on the outside - typically it is white. I think I confused the RAID-1 setup by individually spinning each drive up separately and now I don't know what to do.
I just happened to purchase another G-RAID from SanDisk so before I try anything next, I'm copying all the files off the one in question. (I also have a BackBlaze backup, but want to be very careful here..) The GRAID Configurator utilty is saying things are running in "Degraded" mode and has a button to press to "REPAIR", but I don't want to press it until my backup is done.
Do you have any ideas on what to do? Either way, thanks a million! Things are much much quieter now!
I resolved my question. NEVER re-mount a RAID-1 G-RAID with only one of the drives in it. It throws things out of sync and considers the G-RAID to be running in "Degraded" mode and the indicator light turn a solid RED. The only way to fix this was to use the GRAID Configurator app's "REPAIR" mode, which initialized one of the drives, then slow rebuilt it from the contents of the other drive. BTW, this process kept crashing, so I ended up reformatting the G-RAID to RAID 0 , then back to RAID 1 (losing all data). After the indicator light was WHITE again, I copied back all the contents which I had luckily stored on my 2nd G-RAID drive before messing with all this. ALL IS GOOD now, and the replacement fan works great! Thanks again.
Glad the video helped you out Ken. Thanks for the kind words.
@@NettleReef Thank you! The GRAID is and quiets, and not like a screaming banshee!
Great job, I have a newer enclosure that looks exactly the same. I ordered the fan from amazon and have no doubt it will work great thanks to you!!!
Glad it helped
Thanks! I just ordered two of these fans for my G-Raids. I guess they come with crappy fans!
do you know if the proper power supply is 12v 4amps or 12v 5amps for a 8tb?
Thank you
You're welcome
hi, is the origin fan's pin is 2510 2pin?
The fan that Amazon sent me is 24 V. Is there any concern with using this fan instead of the 12V version?
I suggest checking your current fan to see what voltage it is.
@@NettleReef I wanted to thank you for making this video, without it I don't think I would have tried replacing the fan in my drive. I had the same issue as yours, it was very loud, to the point were I could not use it and was considering replacing the drive. I ordered the fan you suggested. The first time they sent the wrong fan, it was not the correct voltage. The second fan was the correct voltage but the pins did not line up very well when I plugged it in. The directions showed how to hard wire the fan using by cutting the existing adaptor and wiring it to the supplied adaptor and that worked perfectly. Thanks again for making the video it was very helpful in resolving my issue.