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Cake day: February 22nd, 2025

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  • 1st, do not power the fan from the pi if possible to avoid any underpower headaches. It should be fine.

    Your best bet is to just power it at 5v using a standard USB wall wart and a sacrificial USB cable (old 2.0 ones work best). Strip the USB cable and expose the positive and negative wires and hook them up to the positive and negative fan pins (identify these using a 4pin fan header diagram). You can either try just shoving the tips of the USB cable into the fan header using electrical tape as a quick bodge, or cut and strip the fan cables and twist them together.





  • To answer your question, yes that PSU looks like it should work. I’m not sure I would use this PSU for my NAS due to the quality of the manufacturer being unknown, but generally it should be fine so long as it is not mission critical.

    Also if you have access to a 3d printer, there are some great designs for external drive cages to keep them safe and cool.