Yeah I've run a home fileserver at home before and it's just not fun continually worrying about updates and having to maintain a bunch of monitoring if some cro

Yeah I've run a home fileserver at home before and it's just not fun continually worrying about updates and having to maintain a bunch of monitoring if some cron job broke or something. They're not exactly cheap, but I'm another one who went the Synology route. They slap a user-friendly UI ontop of linux mdraid and BTRFS, so you can RAID together a few drives, set up automatic BTRFS snapshots with retention rules (keep 12 hourly snapshots, 7 daily, 3 monthly, etc), set up disk scrubbing schedules etc all just by clicking around.