Synology reviews from lvl1 peeps

Small time cloud dependant products that go belly up has been something easily avoided. People born this forum are tech savvy, ranging from knowing to avoid certain products all the way to contributing to open source projects. I know some avoid the cloud all together but I’m a mid-level lvl1 peep. I kinda-sorta used Google play music, but going into the app and being told it’s all going to be gone unless I move it to YouTube music rekindled my urge to self host as much as possible.

I have a FreeNAS overkill build but doing anything beyond basic shares feels like a sysadmin learning project. This was great when that is actually what I wanted (l learned to setup a 10g to zen, share storage for VMs on Zen, rbacs, zfs, nfs, iscsi, editing plugins etc).

But now I want the apple experience when it comes to my NAS- easy and Grandma could set it up. Something that has lots of apps (on it and in Google’s app store) so it can start to fully replace my cloud services. As much as I parrot the much smarter than me gurus about the greatness that is ZFS, I’m not finding anything that uses ZFS on the same user ease level as Synology.

Looking at the Synology DS1621xs+. This is not cheap so I’m trying to do some due diligence here.

Anyone here run a large suite of their apps? Like their backups, phone backups, windows image backups, photo cloud service, music and video hosting, Plex, surveillance station, Plex live (converter plugged in), some small VMs etc all concurrently?

Very curious to see/hear about success stories of using not just a few features but getting use of a majority of their features.

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