[adam_th]

Unraid is brilliant if you're interested in BYO hardware. It can be setup with mix and match drives, supports docker and virtual machines. Realistically it's a bit more work than Synology to get up and running, but once it is, the only thing you really need to do is update the software from time to time

[j45]

I don't mind the idea of BYO hardware, especially if it's an old server with hotswap drive and hotswap power built in.

Increasingly, with the time I have towards the things that interest me, I just want storage and a bit of compute to be like a home appliance, reasonably set and forget it and leave my messing around on a USFF computer.

[Hamuko]

I've heard things about Unraid not being that performant due to the design of the disk array solution.

[bayindirh]

You can add a cache SSD to keep hot data to reduce access times, and why do you need that much of a throughput to begin with?

[Zekio]

you can run ZFS without the Unraid disk array in unraid these days