Oh man, you have no idea. I’ve learnt to wake up when the noise dies, it means something’s wrong.

you’re not wrong, but with enough drives the different seeking noises just blend together so you don’t hear the single one, just the wider harmony 😀

White noise from the slow humming fans, perfect!

If your phone is android (I think so) and your jellyfin server has a file share (easy to implement anyway) you can use material files (https://f-droid.org/packages/me.zhanghai.android.files/). It has an option to connect via smb.