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
I use yt-dlp to download the audio from a YouTube video and then use MacWhisper to transcribe, and summarize the audio. Not sure what a windows or linux equivalent of MacWhisper would be