This is pretty much my setup as well! Syncthing for a small collection of files I want available from all my machines - commonly used documents, photos, stuff

This is pretty much my setup as well! Syncthing for a small collection of files I want available from all my machines - commonly used documents, photos, stuff I want quickly backed up or synced automatically. Samba for my long term mostly-read rarely-write storage with larger files, ISOs, etc.