I have very similar requirements, but I'm currently using a Pi with some external drives since that's how I started out. Would you mind sharing what you ended up buying? My place is pretty small, so the 'quiet' requirement is one I care about a lot. Personally I'd love to get something passively cooled, but I haven't seen much!

You might have to live on a busy street in NYC to understand. Ride share drivers in particular will just LAY on the horn for many tens of seconds, even minutes straight.

When you're NYC and you haven't figured out that we should get rid of a lot of public (free!) parking spots for delivery and loading zones, you wind up with a lot of double and triple parking.

Combine those two things, you'll get noise complaints about honking. Seriously, you have no idea how bad it can be!

Hmmm. I wonder how they could improve the 'character of the neighborhood' and reduce their 'traffic issues'?

Perhaps, if we just give them more lanes and parking spots in New York Fucking City they'll solve it! Looks like a super pleasant place to hang out currently.

FFS. If you want a car-dependent nightmare dystopia, move literally anywhere else in the country! Sheepshead bay is in the damn subway network. Ride a bike. Go for a walk. Ride the damn subway. If it doesn't go to enough places, we should expand it!