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Would like an "always on" Linux machine for home. Currently have a work laptop, personal laptop, VMWare ESXi machine, NAS (QNAP TS431-P).
I want to be able to run a few things all the time:
Neither laptop is going to be "always on" as they may get taken away with me some times.
Not happy with the reliability of the ESXi machine, mainly because I'm not an ESXi admin and it's a ~6 year old i5 and its on a relatively old version of ESXi. Replacing it quickly would be a pain. The VMs I run on the ESXi box don't matter if they're not running 100% of the time.
QNAP NAS can run things but it's an Annapurna Labs Alpine AL212 Dual-Core ARM chip, so doesn't run all Linux/docker images as an x86 based thing would. It's also only 4-bay and a little slow so I wouldn't mind replacing it with a faster 8-bay thing.
Doesn't need any display or anything on it. Just want to connect to it remotely.
Choices:-
a) Intel NUC type thing, can probably get by with 8GB RAM and a 128GB SSD (which I have spare).
b) Raspberry Pi, have a few spare but they're quite fragile (even in a case) and feel "temporary", plus not x86
c) Upgrade the NAS to an x86 based thing where it can also run docker/linux images
Leaning towards (c) as I want fewer devices and so however nice a NUC is it would be yet another bloody thing.
Any other ideas?
Any particular make of NAS? Synology?