Synology isn’t the cheapest, but they’ve made it “just work”. Every few years - both for home, and for work, I consider getting a “more serious” storage system

Synology isn’t the cheapest, but they’ve made it “just work”. Every few years - both for home, and for work, I consider getting a “more serious” storage system or building one; and every time I do a serious comparison and end up choosing Synology over building my own FreeNAS/TrueNAS/etc for home, and preferring Synology over NetApp for work. I do have a couple of NetApps for mission critical stuff; and one of my customers runs an Isilon which I have to support; for almost every workload that can tolerate a few minutes of planned downtime per month, the Synology wins bigly as long as you have knowledgeable IT staff. And no, you don’t want an Isilon or a NetApp if you don’t have knowledgeable IT staff around - you want a synology (or to get better IT)