Hah! I have been there. In the end I took the plunge and bought a DS218+. - 2 bays so that I can run one big HD for storage and an SSD for software (backups in

Hah! I have been there. In the end I took the plunge and bought a DS218+. - 2 bays so that I can run one big HD for storage and an SSD for software (backups in the cloud and on external drives) - Intel CPU for best compatibility with software packages from third party sources and docker - decent video playback support I have had it for 1.5 years and haven't looked back. I don't run much on it other than Plex, torrents, syncthing and time machine backups. But it is so much better than my old laptop that I was using for all this before.