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Look at HP Microservers. They're a nice package and get you ECC too. At least some NAS models can have a normal Linux distro installed as well. And if you're homebrewing a small ITX case will probably be great too. AMD has some parts that are specific to that market that look interesting.

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Other people recommended this to me when I was building a tiny home server, but it’s really not in the same league as a Raspberry Pi, 2-bay NAS or i3 NUC. It’s a real server, which is 4 times the size and can draw 10 times as much power.

I was going to say this also. I actually have one of the older ones, it's relatively massive and also relatively very noisy.

I'd love some NAS hardware that is low power and can run a few Docker containers.

Synology 918+, (and presumably the very similar 1019+ and 920+) is great for this - at a fairly steep price. It really does 'just work'. I added more ram to take it to 12gb so that the containers had plenty of headroom.

Arm processors are more energy efficient.

Most synology NASs run similar software, so you can buy an ARM one to do something similar.

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