Depends on use case. My NAS recommendations are a 4 bay NAS at a minimum that supports RAID 5 for drives under 2 TB and RAID 6 over 2 TB. As for Cloud integration, unless they regularly update the firmware it isn't worth it, as they tend to become incompatible as time goes on and frequently end up hosting malware when exposed to the internet.
I would personally recommend scavenging an old PC from somewhere (HP Microservers are good for this), buying a few WD REDs, and putting FreeNAS on it.
Regular Stuff:
- HP Z800 Workstation (48GB of RAM, 2 x Hexacore Xeon X5670s) for Work Stuff (VMs/Development)
- Numerous File/Storage Servers (HP Micro G7s and a G8 with a Xeon E3 core)
- 2011 Macbook Pro running ESXi for Mac VMs
- Two Mini-ITX Machines built using ASRock E350M1/USB3 Motherboards for dicking about on
- 5 Raspberry Pi 1Bs and 1 RPi 2 for dicking about with ARM Stuff on
Curiosities:
- Ben Nanonote (MIPS tiny netbook with 32MB of RAM and running OpenWRT)
- SHARP Netwalker PC-Z1 (Japanese Clam-Shell ARM Touchscreen machine running ARM Ubuntu)
- 3x Ainol Mini PCs (Atom Bay Trails with 2GB of RAM and wireless capabilities, used for testing desktop software on low end PCs)
- Bifferboard (Tiny 486SX compatible board with 32MB of RAM [Was a watchdog service for other servers])
- 10 x TP-Link TL-WR703Ns (Tiny Wireless AP/Router With 32MB of RAM and runs custom distros of OpenWRT with my Network Configuration Services on them)
- 10 x TP-Link TL-MR10Us (Same as above with internal batteries)
Vintage Machines:
- Amstrad ALT-286SX (20MHz 286 with 1Mb of RAM Laptop, with DOS 6.22 and Win 3.1)
- C64 (The most sold computer of all time)
- Atari 520ST (Atari Computer)
Evidently yes I do, Release Engineering mostly (lumped under programming and the like)