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    Dell R640 Fan High speed issue with front-loaded 2.5 U.2 Enclosure/NVME Drives

    Makes sense. I'm getting some Kapton and testing your theory. Keep u posted. Thanks again.
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    Dell R640 Fan High speed issue with front-loaded 2.5 U.2 Enclosure/NVME Drives

    Yup. Gutting is the right word for sure. Can't find anything via IPMI/RACADM/REDFISH APIs. For those interested, You still can (I tested it via RACADM) disable the "3rd party pci cooling" behaviour for PCIe slots 1-3, so that's something. For me it didn't do crap, since it is the front-loaded...
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    Dell R640 High Fan speeds with front loaded 2.5 NVME drives

    Can and Admin please delete this thread? it is a double post. The site was doing something funky yesterday whenever I tried to modify my post...
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    Dell R640 Fan High speed issue with front-loaded 2.5 U.2 Enclosure/NVME Drives

    That being the case, help me understand the logic behing the hack you proposed. How does it work if it is masking a signal? Wouldn't masking the signal be the same as no signal? Pardon the dumb question. I know I'm missing something.
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    Dell R640 Fan High speed issue with front-loaded 2.5 U.2 Enclosure/NVME Drives

    Hey. I was looking further into this, as it maybe the easiest path to try, based on what is actually happening on my chassis. To recap, as soon as I insert the 3rd party U.2 enclosure in slots 6-9, the fans go crazy. Just inserting the empty enclosure without any NVME drives inside it, does the...
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    Dell R640 Fan High speed issue with front-loaded 2.5 U.2 Enclosure/NVME Drives

    Gotcha. I wash hopeful since he said it works across vendors i thought it would at least work across some the poweredge line of servers. Wishful thinking I guess. I'll check the minimum version of the R640 iDRAC I can downgrade to and give that a shot. At least I'll mimimize briking my system by...
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    Dell R640 Fan High speed issue with front-loaded 2.5 U.2 Enclosure/NVME Drives

    I will look into this. Thanks for the info.
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    Dell R640 Fan High speed issue with front-loaded 2.5 U.2 Enclosure/NVME Drives

    Thanks for the reply. Appreciated. So.. I ran into this youtube vid (referring to a R720 I think) but I wonder if it maybe still applicable to an R640? The guy is all over the place and keeps fumbling the commands, but you get the idea after watching the vid. If it is doable, I'm thinking of...
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    Dell R640 Fan High speed issue with front-loaded 2.5 U.2 Enclosure/NVME Drives

    Sorry I to repost my previous post. I had to correct a couple of typos/mistakes and it keeps deleting my post when I do. Not sure what that's about.. Hi All, Good to be here. To sum up my situation, I bought a R640 off ebay. Here is my configuration: Native: - R640 10 Bay Chassis - H740p mini...
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    Dell R640 High Fan speeds with front loaded 2.5 NVME drives

    Hi All, Good to be here. To sum up my situation, I bought a R640 off ebay. Here is my configuration: Native: - R640 10 Bay Chassis - H740p mini controller - (1) NDC - (1) 1G Eth / (2) 10G Eth - M3/M4 NVME Cables to enable NVME on Slots 6-9 Third Party equipment: - (1) 3rd party Quad NVME card...