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Love my synology, I’ve been using it for 12 years now. I will upgrade at some point to latest 4bay version
Everything is fast thanks to an SSD and caching m.2. I max out 1gbit over SMB.
Snapshots have saved potential days/weeks worth of troubleshooting in total and is a must have. Cold backups are easy with Hyper Backup.
I couldn't ask for more.
I probably should have stuck with ESXi. Running Home Assistant as HAOS has some conveniences that may be worthwhile depending on how much like you to tinker. But it also runs totally fine in a Docker container and that has it's own upsides.
~700GB of cache/ container volumes on the 2.5"s as a mergerfs pool, ~38T across the HDDs in mergerfs+snapraid.
Noise and heat are kept at a meaningfully low level, and the case blends in appropriately with the living room. All the normal home-cloud workloads, along with k8s homelab stuff (so I can computer janitor in my free time).
That said, I use an old workstation as my home router and server. It’s worth the power bills in saved subscription cost alone. Much more relevant is how much of my time I spend on it!
It's basically like a Raspberry Pi, but with a beefier GPU. It's not extremely fast, but is decent as a web and file server.
TDP is extremely low, 3W idle, 8W top.
There's also a enterprise HP switch where I disabled the fan and it reports "temperature normal" even though it is in the same cabinet. Fibre to OPNsense in the living room.
It doesn't have to be complicated or pretty.
I also have a dell micro with a 6th gen i7 and 16GB ram I use as my primary windows machine, but previously it was hosting all the aforementioned services by itself.
I'd go with some kind of mini PC and an external drive or two, or direct attached storage rather than a synology
The NUCs run my HA kubernetes cluster and all the apps I run out of my home. The Pis are primarily for playing around. The NAS is my general NFS server storage which mostly gets used by my k8s cluster.