12-04-2022, 08:30 AM
I am planning building my own "NAS" with UnRAID (using an SSD write cache) and is trying to figure out what will be the most quiet disk configuration as I am forced to have the "NAS" in a room used for other things.
I have looked at some of your noice tests but have a hard time drawing conclusions from it.
As I will use a write cache I do not care much about the noice when the disk are writing and I expect my reads to be sporadic (mostly when watching Plex or doing backups) so idle noice is what I am most conserned with.
I am also trying to figure out if a smaller number of large drives (say initially 3 x 20 TB with one as parity) or several smaller (say 5 x 10 TB) will make more noice as larger typical "enterprise" drives are mentioned as making more noice?!
I am not in need for any enterprise features like encryption.
In particular drives that say every minute makes some periodic noice evewn at idel would be very annoying I think...
Any thoughts?
I have looked at some of your noice tests but have a hard time drawing conclusions from it.
As I will use a write cache I do not care much about the noice when the disk are writing and I expect my reads to be sporadic (mostly when watching Plex or doing backups) so idle noice is what I am most conserned with.
I am also trying to figure out if a smaller number of large drives (say initially 3 x 20 TB with one as parity) or several smaller (say 5 x 10 TB) will make more noice as larger typical "enterprise" drives are mentioned as making more noice?!
I am not in need for any enterprise features like encryption.
In particular drives that say every minute makes some periodic noice evewn at idel would be very annoying I think...
Any thoughts?