So I got a Qnap TS-673A and want to populate it with drives to get minim 24 TB usable space. Since the NAs will be in my homeoffice I do not want it to be so loud that it becomes distracting, since besides working I sometimes chill, read and game in this room. From working in datacenters in the past I know that enterprise drives can be really noisy.
Now it is really hard do find good data on reliability and noise. It seems the general consesus is that something like a Toshiba 12TB N300 is "quite" but when I look at the data they claim up to 36db when r/w which is above what some of WDs offers claim 29-30db.
In the past some smaller capicity drives seemed to be quiter so I was thinking more smaller drives but I doubt that the noise reduction is that good when using 6 vs 3 drives if the 6 drives indivually are a bit quiter. Can any of you fine people share some of your experience? It would be much appreciated.