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Commodity hardware & open source software for the win.
When my Western Digital NAS was never going to get critical security patches, I was so freaking glad to find out that they just used software raid... I threw the HDDs in a Debian server and never looked back.
It's certainly nice to have things that are turn-key, but if you can find your way around any OS, just avoid proprietary everything.