My university finally stopped offering unlimited Google Drive storage after 9 years. Being so dependent on google Drive I’m between hosting my own cloud or getting a synology. I work in my office and also during at home sometimes and the with google drive I’m using the stream option which only download files when I need it. I would like to keep it that way if possible.

I’ve heard good things about Synology and it just works out of the box but I’ve also read that unfortunately if the hardware craps out after warranty I’d pretty much have to get a new one?

I’ve also read up on TrueNAS and Nextcloud but it seems that it needs alot of post setup maintenance? I’m have experience setting up Linux and other OS’s and I’m ok with installing and setting the NAS up initially but I’d rather not spend much time troubleshooting if/when its not working properly. Is it as bad as the comment sections here suggest?