I’ve been a fan of Synology for years, and if you’re running Intel-x86 based hardware, you should be able to run almost all of the standard docker containers pl

I’ve been a fan of Synology for years, and if you’re running Intel-x86 based hardware, you should be able to run almost all of the standard docker containers plus all the Synology apps that have been developed over the years, including Plex servers, cloud backups, etc.... However, even their biggest boxes don’t have a great deal of CPU power, because for serving storage you don’t need that much CPU. And you don’t want to overload them with apps and containers at the cost of hurting their primary purpose. In your case, I might be inclined to do the storage part with a Synology NAS, and then add on a separate server component to handle the more CPU-intensive operations and have it access the Synology NAS over the network. I do also like FreeNAS, and you can install it on hardware you build yourself, or you can buy one of the TrueNAS Mini configurations (see https://www.truenas.com/truenas-mini/ https://www.truenas.com/truenas-mini/). I’m definitely planning on going this route for my next home NAS.