I have 4x 8TB WD Red Plus drives in my NAS. I started with 2 and added 2 later. 1 of the original 2 failed a little under the 4 year mark. I replaced it with another 8TB WD Red Plus drive. I’m happy with them. I wouldn’t say they get particularly loud unless I’m writing a bunch of data to them.

SMART Power_On_Hours (converted to years):

sda = 5.42
sdb = 1.58
sdc = 3.85
sdd = 3.85

Damn…I feel bad doing this but maybe you can cut your losses now and invest time in another project :/

https://immich.app/

I’ve been pretty happy with Kavita as the server. You can read the books directly from the web app but if you think you might end up in an area with no signal, you can download the book from Kavita, and use a separate eReader app to read the file locally.

I agree. I’ve got a 9060XT 16GB card running some version of gpt-oss:20b. I understand how to program more or less but I do it so infrequently that I forget the syntax of whatever language I’m working in. It’s ability to spit out boiler plate code that I can edit for my needs has been a huge time saver and I’m extremely happy with my setup.