Fan control
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorHsin Chang Lu
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Abstract
Examples described herein relate to fan control. For example, operating a computing device includes storing data on a data storage device of the computing device and controlling a fan of the computing device based on throughput of the data storage device.
Claims13
A method of operating a computing device, comprising:
- storing data on a data storage device of the computing device;
- determining a value of a throughput of the data storage device;
- and
- controlling a fan of the computing device, the controlling of the fan comprising altering the revolutions per minute (RPM) of the fan based on the determined value of the throughput of the data storage device, the altering being independent of a temperature of the data storage device, wherein altering the RPM of the fan based on the determined value of the throughput of the data storage device comprises reducing the RPM of the fan in response to degradation of the determined value of the throughput of the data storage device caused by vibration of the fan.
A computing device comprising:
- a fan;
- a data storage device;
- a processor;
- and memory storing code executable by the processor to determine a value of a throughput of the data storage device, and to control the fan as a function of the determined value of the throughput of the data storage device, wherein the fan is controlled independently of a temperature of the data storage device, wherein to control the fan as a function of the determined value of the throughput of the data storage device comprises to reduce the revolutions per minute (RPM) of the fan in response to degradation of the determined value of the throughput of the data storage device caused by vibration of the fan.
A tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium comprising instructions that direct a processor to determine a value of a throughput of a data storage device, and to alter the revolutions per minute (RPM) of a fan of a computing device based on the determined value of the throughput of a hard disk drive (HDD) of the computing device, wherein the RPM of the fan is altered independently of a temperature of the data storage device, and wherein to alter the RPM based on the determined value of the throughput of the HDD overrides control of the RPM of the fan based on temperature, wherein to alter the RPM of the fan based on the determined value of the throughput of the HDD comprises to reduce the RPM of the fan in response to degradation of the determined value of the throughput of the HDD caused by vibration of the fan.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.