What do you have, what do you recommend, and why?
Asking as I’ve got a lot of spare components lying around that I’m planning on turning into a NAS. If it doesn’t work out I’ll buy a pre-built enclosure and reuse the drives.
I looked into this when replacing my QNAP. I found self hosting way too confusing. I’m only using my QNAP NAS for storage, I wouldn’t recommend using apps like photo station or media station. I’m doing that all on a self hosted rpi.
I’m currently looking to replace my QNAP. My current unit is the second unit I’ve had of thier that has failed due to motherboard or processor failure and I’m sick of dropping $$$ each time they fail on a replacement unit to keep my data.
Next time my $$$ is going to a self built truenas server, at least this way I have control over replacing bad components and not reliant on a third party. It took 1 month to get my repaired unit back and data restored because the RAID was lost.
