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May not quite be silent, but an HP microserver running FreeNAS is cheap and works well. It'll run on anything but the microservers are a nice starting point (mine is a HP G7 N54L. FreeNAS runs ZFS - think of it like RAID but better (incremental backups, scheduled checks of data integrity etc).
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Microserver is pretty quiet and good quality/reliable. Always money off offers as well.
Not totally silent though, can't hear it with the tv on but sometimes in a quiet room you can hear a few quiet fans (upgrading the PSU fan seems to be one of the suggestions to make it quieter).
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Is RAID still a thing for home NAS setups? I like redundancy and backups.
ZFS is the new thing, and people tend to run http://www.freenas.org/ and build their own system.
But... foregoing that, because it needs a fairly hefty build with a lot of RAM, then any QNAP will do and just use RAID6 if you have lots of drives, or RAID5 if you only a few drives.
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Passive / silent home NAS setups. Any recommendations?
Is RAID still a thing for home NAS setups? I like redundancy and backups.