For me, this is about personal priorities. I’ve been a professional sysadmin and definitely have the skills to build a NAS from scratch - I’ve done it more than

For me, this is about personal priorities. I’ve been a professional sysadmin and definitely have the skills to build a NAS from scratch - I’ve done it more than once. But this is one aspect of my life that I look at as core infrastructure that needs to just work, and I don’t really gain anything from rolling my own in this particular category. I still run a mini home lab where I do all kinds of tinkering. Just not with storage. But I also completely understand wanting to do this all manually. I’ve been there. That’s just not where I am today.