After experimenting at home, the very first professional-grade NAS from
Terramaster arrived at work, too, with 12 HDD bays and possibly a pair of M2s.
NVME cards. In this case, I again installed a plain Debian distribution, but HDD
monitoring required some configuration adjustments to run smartd properly.
A few days before today, 21 years ago, I sent this message to the debian-devel-announce mailing list to solicit helpers in packaging and to oversee the geospatial software stack included in the main Debian archive. After so many years, still there.
I recently bought a basic NAS for home use. The NAS is a nice Terramaster F2-425, which is a very basic RAID1-only NAS with a decent CPU and 2.5Gb network. Terramaster allows users to either use its custom Linux-based TOS or install any other operating system supported by the x86_64-based platform. Note that this model does not mount any NVME unit for the OS, as for the F2-424.