Hi guys
I'm not sure how come I havent discovered this thread. My bad.
I am running an old synology 212J that is frankly very very long in the tooth. It does its job as NAS but Download station is kinda hard to access especially from my phone, when i want to add a torrent etc.

Mostly all the packages work very slowly on this.
I'd like to get a new one but RM1000 ish seems like very expensive. And I'm not sure if it performs any better.
For the same money I'm thinking of DIY with an Old desktop or used Intel NUC with 2 Sata. (I don't think I will really need more than 2 bays).
I use Google drive team drive and One drive 365 for 1TB cloud backups.

The NAS is mainly as a 4k/1080p fileserver for 2 HTPC's. Other than that I also use it to store my windows / htpc / backups and images.
Lastly I have a rather big collection of video and photos from my phone and drone that if possible I want to directly edit via Lightroom.