I'm after some advice please. The past 3 years or so I've been dabbling in creating a homelab. I have a couple of dell SFFs, 3 dual nic mini pcs, couple of small switch's, 3 APs, two small old NAS drives. Hosting some VMS/containers on Proxmox cluster, PFsense on a mini pc.

I've come to the point where I don't have time to learn anything new in depth and feel like I have a second admin job on top of my already busy day job.

Any suggestions on what I could do? I'm thinking of selling the lot and replacing with a new Synology Nas or something similar. I like tinkering.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Thanks so much for all the advice and suggestions.

I think I'm going to clear everything out and go with an old existing NAS for now and a small device running Proxmox, Ubuntu with docker containers for home assistant, VPN, Plex and the Arr's to keep the family happy.

I will replace the old Nas with a new one after some research. I'll look at synology versus alternatives such as Truenas Scale, QNAP, Terramaster. Terramaster seems to have come a long way since my F210 - still need to build some trust though. Don't know anything about QNAP yet and have dabbled with Truenas.

I'll stop listening to the great podcasts above so when I get the urge I can binge.

Any NAS suggestions would be great.

Thanks again!