use proxmox to make a file server, its easy to do with deepseek R1, or you go here and click Gemini-pro-latest + high + search
https://aistudio.google.com/and then you can make proxmox containers for other things, like syncthing, jellyfin or adguard home.
the way i do it is that i use mergerfs XFS pool but thats because i have a lot of drives of random sizes