The primary other I looked at was an Intel NUC. I also use several raspberry pi for some smaller iot things, but I find it is nice to have one decently powerfu

The primary other I looked at was an Intel NUC. I also use several raspberry pi for some smaller iot things, but I find it is nice to have one decently powerful server to run a whole bunch of services on. It also has two external 8Tb drives in software raid0 that I use for my NAS storage.