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It is relatively quiet. The loudest thing about the UDM and the Synology units are the HDDs (I did replace the fans in the Synologys with Noctuas) and the mini-PCs are also really quiet. The stock configuration of the Silverstone case however sounds more like a vacuum cleaner when starting up and not that much better after they go to 30-40% or so (they do make a lot of wind though). For now I connected the case fans to a fan controller and set them as low as they will go and then it is ok-ish (not totally quiet, but also not that loud and it is in a separate room). It is not a problem yet as it is not running all the time in the play-phase and there are no HDDs in there yet. After I put in some HDDs I will have to see how the temps of the drives are. If I have to crank the fans higher to get them to an ok value I will have to go looking for some quieter fans to swap them out.

all of my drives are burned in. They are all well used lol

I finally got a chance to do some more digging. Turns out my file manager, Nemo, (Linux Mint) uses GVfs which mounts SMB shares via /run/user/1000/gvfs but not statically nor with appropriate permissions to torrent TO that location. So I made entries in fstab to /mnt but was still having issues before realizing that for permanent shares /media is the correct directory. Once fstab reflected those changes, I appear to be humming along nicely. //bigboy.local/shows /media/shows cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,vers=3.1.1,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0 //bigboy.local/movies /media/movies cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,vers=3.1.1,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0 Permissions and fstab were the right moves - the tthing that threw me off was GVfs and how it handles smb shares upon user login. Weird.

The point of a HDD burn-in is exactly that, to catch manufacturer defects (usually bad physical sectors) before you write your data to it, especially if you choose to use refurbished drives. It's not witchcraft it's just an extra step one can take to try and be proactive to HDD health instead of reactive to bad HDD health.

It would be very interesting to have the option to have adguard Home as a running app.