If you have an old PC with a full height ATX case and lots of extra disks, you can consider installing Synology NAS!

A good Synology NAS costs a lot of money.  The Synology DSM 5.2 is a very good OS with lots of capabilities if installed in a fast PC with lots of RAM.

Introducing XPEnology.  They are a bunch of engineers who have decided to create a bootloader to allow Synology DSM to be installed in most PCs.

All you need is a USB flash drive, I use a 2GB flash and it is ample.  A PC with all the drives installed using the motherboard SATA ports.  If you want to try virtualisation using VirtualBox, then it is better if you have multi-core CPU and lots of RAM.

YES. Virtualisation is possible.  So many possibilities with this function.  It is either expensive or impossible on original Synology NAS as the system does not have the right hardware to offer the right performance needed.

The installation procedure is so simple that you can complete an installation in 10 minutes!

Instructions can be referenced in this video.

I have managed to patch the DSM version to 5.2-5644 update 8 without any problems.

Try it!