I silenced my network stack, and all it cost me was my sanity
… But it worked, and now my networking gear has quieter fans, and that's worth the world to me when I'm sitting next to the rack all day. …
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Most networking equipment isn't exactly designed to be user-serviceable, but the Unifi Dream Machine Pro Max was a little easier to disassemble than most. Honestly, I feared the worst when I looked down the hard drive bays and saw the cooling fans buried at the bottom, but they were attached to a plastic vent that came out after four screws were undone, so that was a pleasant surprise. The worst part was routing the Noctua fan cables back to the headers, as the sleeve around the cables made it a little tricky, so I had to go inside the venting area instead. And the plug needed a little trimmin
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