I have never known RPM of a drive to affect its noise level. The fan(s) will be far more significant in noise level. Most drives run pretty quietly, though some can get noisy during I/O, like my HGST Ultrastar He6 drives.
Also, without knowing the model, I wouldn’t say they’re not made to run 24/7. But even on desktop drives, it’s rarely run time that kills them, it’s start-stop cycles. Everything will be fine, but one day you’ll shut it down and some drives won’t spin up. That’s why power outages can be deadly to an old server.
You need two Proxmox nodes for HA.
Virtual networking is also not a great idea in the homelab. It’s better if you do have HA, but even so, if you screw it up and break something in Proxmox, you’ll be without any network access to look for help online (except on your phone, so good luck retyping commands or transferring files).
I tried switching a while back, but I found a bunch of stuff didn’t work properly, and wasn’t considered supported. I don’t remember what it was exactly.
I might try it again once there’s been a bit more development and community use. Docker isn’t ideal, but at least it works and there’s a lot of community support.
And nothing of value was lost. Opnsense is still free and open source, and doesn’t start petty drama insulting its competitors.
The only thing I can think of is to do a restore of all the backups in sequence, assuming they’re all of the same thing. That would give you one consolidated image. Then you could run some deduplication and take a new single backup, if desired.
But really it’s so subjective that I don’t think there’s really any way to automate it. I would mount all the backups, go through everything, pick out what you want to keep, and delete the rest.
Look at it this way. If you’ve had the backup for years, and never needed to restore any of those files, how likely are you ever need them in the future? Even if you did delete something you later wanted, how life-threatening would it be to not have it?
Or you could take the easy way out and just add more storage.
That’s literally it. It sends a cert for amazon.com, that your client trusts, because the CA cert used to sign it is in your trusted store.
That’s what modern endpoint security is, really. Traditional AV is dead. There are far too many people making malware for file signatures or heuristics to keep up. Instead, you want to look for behavior on the system and on the network. For example, if a program starts reading every file it can find on the network, and changing then from their current formats to unreadable blobs, that’s probably ransomware and should be stopped. Plain old AV probably won’t catch it on the client because of how frequently it gets modified (plus all the various evasion techniques), nor on the server because nothing unusual is running on the server.
Just give them access to it now? There shouldn’t be any issue with it continuing to be available or a while if you should get hit by a bus.