You buy a NAS for silent, always-on storage. It sits in a corner, humming quietly, doing its thing.
You installed Docker on it for the same reason I did: to save money. Every open-source service you'd otherwise pay a VPS for — your media server, your download automation, your file sync, your home automation bridge — all of it can run on the NAS for free. No monthly VPS bills, no cloud subscriptions, no $5/mo here and $10/mo there that add up to a second rent. Just one box, your box, doing everything.
The problem is that Docker wasn't designed for spinning disks.
And suddenly the HDDs never stop. Seeking, spinning, clicking, whirring — not occasionally, not every few minutes, but constantly. At 2am you can hear it from the next room. Through a closed door. It drives you insane because you bought this thing specifically so it would not make noise.
I know, because I lived with it for months. Every night, the same clicking. Every morning, the same relief when the TV drowned it out. The NAS was supposed to be invisible, and instead it was the loudest thing in the house.
