I’d recommend looking at building your own with a cheap Ryzen 5600 or something. You can find Nas cases online with racks and everything, and the benefit is you don’t be using some basic CPU. Then you can use some off the shelf NAS OS and you’re done… With the base, but then you’ll have to buy drives just like you would with the Synology.
I’m saying all this as someone on a Synology NAS. My device is barely supported, and the firmware is lacking features for some docker and home assistant stuff, wouldn’t be an issue if i was running a custom setup.
I’d recommend looking at building your own with a cheap Ryzen 5600 or something. You can find Nas cases online with racks and everything, and the benefit is you don’t be using some basic CPU. Then you can use some off the shelf NAS OS and you’re done… With the base, but then you’ll have to buy drives just like you would with the Synology.
I’m saying all this as someone on a Synology NAS. My device is barely supported, and the firmware is lacking features for some docker and home assistant stuff, wouldn’t be an issue if i was running a custom setup.