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  • Why you want a macOS home server, and how to get one going

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    I’ve done Windows Server, mac Server, Linux Server, FreeNAS Server, Rockstor Server and Synology Server over about 15 years.

    i would say the best overall is Synology by far. You can google Xpenology which is a bootloader to use Synology OS (Synology DSM) on your own hardware. Their real hardware is great too, haven’t had any issues.

    Synology has BTRFS running over mdadm RAID and it’s highly integrated. You can also install virtual machines which is great too. It has so many plugins too and also docker, you can run anything on these things.

    I recommend this over FreeNAS because that uses ZFS and you can’t add single drives to expand a RAID 5/6 which most people find out too late.

    Rockstor uses BTRFS for the filesystem and RAID and it’s not stable yet.

    Windows, Mac and Linux OS’s still require logging into and managaing them, maintaining them etc They are not designed to be headless, don’t have reporting via email or notifications for system issues either, I would avoid them unless you absolutely need their functionality.
    jdw