I’ve now tried 5 NAS systems that claim to support VM’s. My latest endeavor was a Terra-master, 32 GB RAM w/VirtualBox. NOT ONE of them made me happy! About 10 years ago I owned a QNAP that was reliable and affordable.
I actually still own it, but it doesn’t support 4, 3 tb drives, nor Virtualization. Whataya got? I’ll run ONE virtual machine. Ubuntu server, no GUI. Very light weight. Low resource requirements.
I tried one recently but it kept crashing on me. Just locked up or lost connectivity. Mayhap I should have exchanged it, but at 82 years old, I don’t have a lot of patients. Synology is a good bet, but they come out with new firmware that eliminates the support of typical hard drives, until you have to buy their brand.
I already own the drives and cannot afford to replace 4 drives! Nothing is mission critical except for the most recent backups of PC’s. I have a backup of the VM on my MS One Drive. It’d suck to lose the VM for a few days, but it’s for testing an app a friend is developing.
The system need only support that one VM and shares for backups of 3 PC’s. It doesn’t need any GPU or HDMI, 1 Ethernet is fine.
My max budget is $700.00 but I doubt I need to spend that much.
TIA!