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I personally think of a small DIY rack stuffed with commodity HDDs off Ebay with an LVM spanned across a bunch of RAID1s. I don't want any complex architectural solutions since my homelab's scale always equals 1. To my current understanding this has little to no obvious drawbacks. What do you think?
I've got Proxmox running on a nvme mirror. Two HDDs are passed to Turnkey Linux mediaserver; they are mirrored with BTRFS and act as storage. I am satisfied with all (prox, turnkey, btrfs) and would recommend.
I had one BTRFS drive fail, and replacing it with no experience took about an hour.
I do wish there was better user documentation for WebDAVcgi, the WebDAV frontend in Turnkey linux mediaserver.
mediaserver comes with Samba, so I use that to connect devices like phone or laptop to the server
Turnkey's mediaserver was my replacement for Openmediavault with Filebrowser plugin. Filebrowser creates an internal user to write files for anything uploaded via web interface, so if you mount the folder later via NFS, the permissions don't match. Openmediavault would stall or crash a lot as a container and especially as a VM, but maybe it runs better on bare metal.