[Avicebron]

Genuine question, if you're running unifi, why don't you want the management vm? Synology makes a decent NAS without the controller.

[InTheArena]

Synology hardware stopped being decent a while ago.

[pinewurst]

Plus their drive type restrictions which are poison in a cost-sensitive NAS.

(Seemingly rolled back recently, but a roll back can be easily rolled back itself. I don't trust them enough to count on that not happening.)

[eptcyka]

I like the hardware, cannot stand needing to run another machine just for management.

[linohh]

If you get one of the Cloud devices, you won't need to, as they bring their own.