I'm going to finish my home server when I open my Christmas gifts. I had planned all this time to run TrueNAS Scale because it's free and the web ui looks nice. I also intend to use my home server for media serving, NextCloud, Pi Hole, Immich, and probably more.
When I realized how I couldn't just increase the size of a ZFS pool when I got more hard drives, or use different sized drives, I decided that maybe it'd be worth the money to go with Unraid.
I've also been learning and practicing setting up a server / server management on a Hetzner VPS with Ubuntu Server 24 and a mounted Hetzner Storage Box, and I've to realize working in the terminal isn't as complicated as I first thought. I'm not very familiar with setting up hard drive RAIDs on Ubuntu, but I'm not opposed to learning.
What are your thoughts on Ubuntu Server vs a dedicated NAS OS like TrueNAS or Unraid?