This should be an interesting thread to discover some newer solutions. I'm presently running FreeNAS 8.2 on a desktop that may be 10 years old - it presents a share drive to our home net and a drive for time machine backups. Share sits on a mirrored raid; the backup sits on a single drive. I periodically tar off contents to a removable drive that I store at an out-of-town location. All this stuff is effective, but certainly dated - everyday use with macOS and ubuntu is seamless but admin can be much less straightforward. Following to see if any newer/better solutions show up.

-Rob
-visit http://www.kahr.us to get my daughterboard that helps fix WPC pinball resets or my replacement LED display boards for model H & model S Skee Ball

Agreed - and flat-out difficult when it's time to replace a failed drive. Unraid sounds like a worthy next step for me too. But first, TPF. Then Allentown. Then Northwest. Then... I guess I'll get to it eventually.

I'm also an order of magnitude below most of you in capacity - I'm sitting at 1T and not feeling at all constrained.

-Rob
-visit http://www.kahr.us to get my daughterboard that helps fix WPC pinball resets or my Pinball 2000 H+V video sync combiner kit