jgreco
Resident Grinch
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To be the Devil's advocate, by going QNAP/Synology you gain a more user-friendly experience of setting up whatever (limited set of) plug-in or VM has been precooked by the vendor.
By going TrueNAS, especially building your own NAS around it, you'll learn a lot more than you expected about server hardware and the intricacies of enterprise storage. Put that as a plus or as a minus as you see fit.
Oh, I don't know. The out-of-the-box experience for a FreeNAS Mini is very agreeable, it's actually better than a Synology -- speaking as someone who does have a bunch of Synology gear. *cough* "Synology assistant".
Also, I really have to say, the UI on FreeNAS has become quite good in the last year or two, easily outdoing Synology. It's been a bit since I've looked at QNAP.
Building your own FreeNAS is more challenging, yes.