I use mine as a local backup for my photography clients. It syncs to the cloud - but it is not a noisy or hot machine. It is fast enough for me to edit on, but I think for my next one, I am going to risk all-flash, with perhaps 2x spinning rust as a redundant on-site back up.
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I'd love for a all flash storage server but the $$$ is too off putting. Storage space on spinning rust is too cheap to ignore it. Though with caching things probably are usable. I half want to build my own S3 cluster to play around with that.
Realistically, I only need 8TB total for my photography stuff (and for it to handle future expansion for a few years) - which isnt too bad cost wise. The cost would be in upgrading the rest of my home network (3x NICs, 1x Router, 1x Switch) in order to take advantage of the speed
Used devices are fairly cheap! Though stuff you can put in datacenters that have 48x 10G ports for $150 are insanely loud so that makes it a bit harder to do. Maybe a fan mod might be the trick with them though.
Considering my rack is about 2 metres behind me, I am impressed that my desktop PC is louder than it, combined, so, I try to keep silence in mind for my rack equipment. Though, in summer time (here in Australia) - the air conditioner itself is the loudest thing!
Grab some Mikrotiks and call it a day :) Cheap, work good enough for home usage, and not loud.
My neighbour is a network engineer, he offered me some used ciscos, but they were only 1GBe, which I already have :P
I will keep an eye out for when his workplace upgrade again in the future ;)
That's nice of him! Here's what I was thinking of(on the loud machines):
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235967355799
https://www.ebay.com/itm/388726559933
I have a few of these deployed and they have been good to me.