Hey Bill,
Many thanks. Well thats the first thing. I just opened up the unit and cleaned it - there was not a lot of tumble-weed type dust bunnies like you would find in an old PC... but there was certainly a full layer of fine dust on the blades. So used q-tips with alcohol. Not too noisy at all around 4000.
And, I have iStat as well as Fan Control running so getting better insight to whats happening. Not to mention that you cleared up why Fan Control was reporting 1 fan...
As for the videos, perhaps. I also have a number of external drives but I now how them all going through USB hubs with their own power, hopefully lessening the burden of the MacBook Pro power supply.
I'll see how it goes... but thanks again.
Ed
Many thanks. Well thats the first thing. I just opened up the unit and cleaned it - there was not a lot of tumble-weed type dust bunnies like you would find in an old PC... but there was certainly a full layer of fine dust on the blades. So used q-tips with alcohol. Not too noisy at all around 4000.
And, I have iStat as well as Fan Control running so getting better insight to whats happening. Not to mention that you cleared up why Fan Control was reporting 1 fan...
As for the videos, perhaps. I also have a number of external drives but I now how them all going through USB hubs with their own power, hopefully lessening the burden of the MacBook Pro power supply.
I'll see how it goes... but thanks again.
Ed