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The HP is notoriously quiet thanks to its large diameter fans and passively cooled mainboard.
As far as the hassle of building and configuring - there's quite a few NAS-dedicated *nix distributions out there that install as an appliance and present the same sort of administrative web interface as the Synology NAS units.
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Read a number of reviews on the N54L that said it was too noisy to sit in a front room. So might be quieter than comparable size units but sounded noisy enough to annoy.
FreeNAS seems to be pretty popular as an alternative software and there is even a modified version of the synology DSM software called
XPEnology that works in a virtual machine, although not made by them. Still a bit more configuring and mucking about than I wanted to do at the moment in time I brought mine
