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HDD Fan Control controls fan speed in relation to drive temperature. If you have replaced your iMac's Hard Drive with a new Hard Drive or a SSD and the fan has started running at full speed creating a lot of noise, HDD Fan Control will control the fan speed, preventing the loud noise whilst keeping your drive safe.
NOTE: This app is specifically designed to control your HDD Fan using your drives S.M.A.R.T data for iMacs with replacement drives which no longer provide correct temperature data to Apple's sensor.
HDD Fan Control will
NOTE: This app is specifically designed to control your HDD Fan using your drives S.M.A.R.T data for iMacs with replacement drives which no longer provide correct temperature data to Apple's sensor.
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What's New
Version 2.2:
- Support for using the iMac's Internal Temperature instead of S.M.A.R.T.
- Some SSD's do not provide correct temperature data, HDD Fan Control now supports using the iMac's internal temperature to control the HDD Fan instead of the temperature reported by S.M.A.R.T. This will automatically happen when HDD Fan Control detects a drive reporting an incorrect temperature or no temperature. It can also be set as a preference in the HDD Fan Control Preferences Pane
- With testing we have improved the default settings for most users.
Version 2.2:
- Support for using the iMac's Internal Temperature instead of S.M.A.R.T.
- Some SSD's do not provide correct temperature data, HDD Fan Control now supports using the iMac's internal temperature to control the HDD Fan instead of the temperature reported by S.M.A.R.T. This will automatically happen when HDD Fan Control detects a drive reporting an incorrect temperature or no more...
Requirements
- Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later
- iMac
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HDD Fan Control controls fan speed in relation to drive temperature. If you have replaced your iMac's Hard Drive with a new Hard Drive or a SSD and the fan has started running at full speed creating a lot of noise, HDD Fan Control will control the fan speed, preventing the loud noise whilst keeping your drive safe.
NOTE: This app is specifically designed to control your HDD Fan using your drives S.M.A.R.T data for iMacs with replacement drives which no longer provide correct temperature data to Apple's sensor.
HDD Fan Control will run the fan at the correct speed, and keep your drive cool and safe from overheating. If you are looking for an application to adjust your Mac's fans from stock (and not to control fan noise after replacement disk) we can highly recommend the free smcFanControl or iStat Menus
NOTE: This app is specifically designed to control your HDD Fan using your drives S.M.A.R.T data for iMacs with replacement drives which no longer provide correct temperature data to Apple's sensor.
HDD Fan Control will run the fan at the correct speed, and keep your drive cool and safe from overheating. If you are looking for an application to adjust your Mac's fans from stock (and not to control fan noise after replacement disk) we can highly recommend the free smcFanControl or iStat Menus
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EthanAspen reviewed on 17 Mar 2012
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It looks to me as if HDDFC is not actually controlling the fan temperature any more so the question now is what is actually controlling it? Before installing HDDFC the fans ran at full speed but they are not doing that now, so something is limiting the fan speed.
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When I change the settings so that the speed should be higher (by moving the start of the ramp down), the fan does speed up, although it doesn't get to the target speed. I wonder if a ratio has been changed in the OS?
I have sent you a message to the email address you provided with your order so we can look at what may be causing your fan to run faster at its minimum.
Thanks
Ben
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Nick Collingridge reviewed on 08 Dec 2011
I agree that showing the version in the Preferences would be good and will note it for the next release.
Thanks again
Lesion reviewed on 30 Nov 2011
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Another option for anyone who really wants to spend thirty bucks is to buy an external HD case.
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Someone who wants such functionality would probably pay for it. Obviously at least some people are willing to pay for it.
If you would rather not, that's great. But what you seem to be suggesting is the developer of this application is charging for something offered elsewhere for free, which is not the case.
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I understand the need for income, as I am a Mac developer myself, the the way to get that income is through a greater volume of smaller sales, not a lesser volume of large sales.
rushyman reviewed on 14 Oct 2011
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Haekon reviewed on 24 Aug 2011
I'd attempted to use smcFanControl and the command line technique that is floating around on the web to set the max fan speed, which is not an ideal solution... it didn't work for me anyway on 10.6.8. My fan was spinning at 4500 rpm when I downloaded the demo version of HDD Fan Control, it instantly reduced it to 1000rpm, this software is a quite frankly a steal at $35 /£20 in relation to the hassle and expense to get Apple to fit a drive yourself!
If you are fitting a Sata II drive then get this, if SSD you might get away with disconnecting from the MBA as someone has suggested but i'm sure its only a matter of time before Apple find a way to screw that solution!
I would just like to say a huuge thanks to the developer who wrote this software I really was at my wits end yesterday thinking I had a very expensive paper weight!
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IanTimothy reviewed on 12 Aug 2011
Amazing Many Thanks ..Ian
Charbelk reviewed on 06 Jul 2011
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This app seems to be kinda disconnected from reality. :P