I spend a lot of time myself going through this same thing. Was looking at QNAP and Synology and then potentially a DIY using Jonosbo case.
In the end I ended up going with the DIY solution, but using an old computer (i7 4790k with 32GB ram). The case has enough room for 8 hard drives. Currently only have 2 1TB hard drives running in zfs mirror. Going to be adding 3 8TB HDD in a mirror in the next few days.
I have been running Truenas Scale, and I don't regret it. So far it has been doing exactly what I need. I run about 10 VM's off my desktop/workstation. All storage for them is on the NAS which is handed off to it via NFS. And then some SMB shares for myself and the family.
I have been running Truenas for about a month now and don't have any regrets. I use it purely as a NAS. No VM's are hosted on it.
I spend a lot of time myself going through this same thing. Was looking at QNAP and Synology and then potentially a DIY using Jonosbo case.
In the end I ended up going with the DIY solution, but using an old computer (i7 4790k with 32GB ram). The case has enough room for 8 hard drives. Currently only have 2 1TB hard drives running in zfs mirror. Going to be adding 3 8TB HDD in a mirror in the next few days.
I have been running Truenas Scale, and I don't regret it. So far it has been doing exactly what I need. I run about 10 VM's off my desktop/workstation. All storage for them is on the NAS which is handed off to it via NFS. And then some SMB shares for myself and the family.
I have been running Truenas for about a month now and don't have any regrets. I use it purely as a NAS. No VM's are hosted on it.