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Happy birthday, cooling fan.
Posted by: Addicted on 2026-08-28 11:38:29
I hate it when the fan is louder than the disk drive, especially when the disk is an older 5.25" novel-sized one. After overhauling the fan, I was going to discard the sticker which covered the screws, but noticed it had a date code. It had just turned forty. And in honor of it being four decades old and nearly silent, I put some contact cement on the back and put the sticker back on.

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Next: the enclosure has no disk tray. Lost in time, somewhere. The disk is off-leash in there. Look around for an existing replacement tray, but expect to do the measurements, sketch it up, plan to spend Saturday evening designing a 3D print for a substitute tray.

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As the old disk doesn't respond on SCSI ('not ready'), the new tray will accommodate 5.25 and 3.5" HDDs for replacements. There's only one unit select switch, so, not going to try cramming two 3.5 disks in there. If it weren't a calssic enclosure, I'd modernize it with an HDD emu - but, no 🤓
Posted by: waynestewart on 2026-08-29 08:36:16
I’ve become used to quiet and fan noise often gets to me. I’ve occasionally relubed fans but more often replaced them. Sometimes even a new device comes with a loud fan. On a couple of hard drive enclosures I found that they came with a resistor to slow down the fan.
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