Pros:

- Tons of services!

- You can run it on portainer or add portainer on the Umbrel

- Cloudflare Tunnel makes it fairly easy to host dervices on the clearnet. They also now have NGINX, but I haven't tried it yet.

- Mealie recipe management can help you save sats on groceries.

- You can run it on a VM.

Cons:

- Backups are not easy.

- The official Umbrel hardware is limited to 2 TB of M.2 SSD. Start9 has up to 4 TB.

-16 GB of RAM compared 32 GB on Start9.

If Umbrel increases storage on the hardware, I'll buy one. I also thought about getting a 32GB mini computer and adding a 4 TB hard drive, but I'm getting to the point where I should just get a rack.