So I'm building my first proper nas soon and my original plan was to get a qnap ts-464 with irowolf drives and stick to the default os just because it look like the best stock os out of the options that would take the less amount of time to get up and running.
Now that I have hexos lifetime the stock os and the time it takes to setup matter a lot less. which means in theory I could get the hardware from qnap, synology, or terramaster based on just who was the spec at a given price point alone.
so my question is how is hoxos compatibility with qnap, synology, and terramaster of the shelf hardware?
Any particular 4-6 bay hardware from any of them that I should avoid because it does not play well with hexos?
Any particular 4-6 bay hardware from any of them that I should prefer because it just works with hexos?
As a side question, are there any other brands I should be looking at for a 4-6 bay NAS that has a better price-to-performance ratio compared to a similar system from qnap, synology, or terramaster