[xedarius]

I have pretty much this existing setup. One thing I'd add is that it's quite noisy. If you have somewhere you can put it, and your house is all cat 6'ed up then great. But if like me you have it in the same room as you, you wil notice it. And it's not the pc, the fractal case has very quite 120mm fans, it's the HDDs.

[kettleballroll]

Are you me? I have almost the exact same build as discussed in the post, and I am super annoyed with how loud the disks are. I have a cronjob that puts them to sleep every night(the NAS is in my bedroom)... For some weird reason they never stop spinning otherwise.

[xedarius]

Made me chuckle. Until SSD are within the reach of a reasonable price range we're out of luck. I have resorted to leaving my NAS off and turning it on when I need it.

For reference here's the drives I have. I don't think they're by any means the loudest and nor are they the quietest. The perception of noise can be a lot to do with surroundings, if you have wooden floor instead of carpet and a whole number of factors. For me the constant whiring is too much.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07H289S79/ref=ppx_yo_dt...

[Laforet]

It really depends on the drives you have. When I upgraded from 3TB to 4TB and 6TB models, I was very much taken aback by how much louder these drives are despite being in the same WD Red CMR product line. Some of their more recent SMR drives have really weird acoustics that always makes me think they are about to fail, but in reality thats just now they should sounds like, yikes.