@sequentialsnep I've been using Synology NAS devices for a while now as their "Synology Hybrid RAID" (SHR) allowed me to mix capacities of drives and slowly upgrade capacity as my needs grew. This included replacing 4 bay enclosures with more modern and powerful ones without losing data.
Currently using a 4 bay 1819+ with 4x 8TB Seagate Ironwolf drives giving me about 21TB storage.
I've also picked up a 2 bay Asustor lite with a Seagate Exos 18TB and a free 3TB drive in JBOD format to act as a backup. I was really impressed with the value for money this represented over the Synology (tho recently NAS prices seem to have jumped up a lot) although I'm not sure if the larger devices offer something similar to the single disk redundancy with mixed drives.
I've currently been eyeing the Ugreen 4 bay intel N100 powered NAS enclosures - I believe you can replace the software if you wanted. Currently I'm using a little N100 box running proxmox to host my home assistant, jellyfin, pi-hole and a test OMV (Open Media Vault?) server.
I did briefly run jellyfin inside a docker container on the Synology 1819, but it really was noticeably slower for indexing media, and the little N100 machine has an SSD to let it serve the UI quickly.
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