Hello! This is my first post, so apologies if I’ve missed any important details.
I’m currently using a Beelink SER8 Mini PC running Arch Linux (my preferred distro) as my NAS. Right now, I have five external 1TB drives connected via two USB-C hubs. While this setup technically works, it's not very power efficient — the hubs often struggle to provide enough power, and overall it’s become a bit of a mess to manage.
I briefly considered upgrading to a wall-powered USB-C hub to keep the current drives, but at this point, I’d rather just increase the overall storage capacity and clean up the setup.
What I’m looking at now is the ORICO 5-Bay Daisy Chain Hard Drive Enclosure. These enclosures support daisy chaining, so I could potentially connect up to three of them for a total of 15 bays. With 22TB drives, that would give me up to 330TB of storage, all still connected to the same Mini PC.
The NAS is running a number of Docker containers, including Jellyfin, FreshRSS, PhotoPrism, Syncthing, Linkwarden, Kavita, and Yamtrack.
My main question is about drive noise. I’m fairly sensitive to sound, so I’m trying to find the quietest 22TB hard drives that would work well in this kind of enclosure. I’ve read that it’s best to use the same model across all bays for reliability, so I’m planning to stick with a single model once I decide.
Any recommendations or advice would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!