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First NAS - how to choose quite hard drives - Enquiries - 01-05-2023
Looking at NAS solution for photos, music, documents, and video (mainly 1080p but may want to do 4k).
Looking at DS1522+ with 4x8tb drives, probably red plus. Want to be as quiet as possible. Is 8tb less noisy than 10 tb? Is 8 tb more noisy than 4 or 6 tb?
Thank you
RE: First NAS - ed - 01-05-2023
DS920+ would be better for remote 4k streaming. But locally you can use ds1522+ for this.
Yes, 10TB drives seem to be louder. But the rest is around 27db https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/internal-drives/wd-red-plus-hdd/product-brief-western-digital-wd-red-plus-hdd.pdf
Bigger drives often are not loud at spinning but during chiselling process. It's not the noise, but the random knocking. Doesn't sound like a music. Sometimes it is better to have more noise, but in a predictable pattern. Better for the human ear.