I am currently looking into upgrading storage for my homelab. The two routes I am looking at are grabbing a dell r730 or a disk array. They are both about the same price, but my major purchase concern is heat and noise. My office/homelab is in a 10x10 foot room. I have worked hard to get the sound floor at my desk to be around 44dB, and the temps to top off at 79f, 74 on a good day with the door open. Is a disk array going to add more heat and noise to the room than a dell r730 server running proxmox with trunas?
Even one hard drive can be noisy, depending on the model. I’m fighting the same issue at home with my VM/Nas/Homeassistant setup
Ever since moving to a dell precision tower inside a rack, noise has been taken care of greatly. The 7920 has been an amazing homelab platform so far. Cut off and looking at selling my r430, way too loud with the small fans.