So you took it out of the shipping box, plugged it to power, and pressed the power button, and everything was up and running?
And since then you haven't had to update any software on it, reboot it, unplug and replug an ethernet cable, shut it down and opened it to add storage, etc.?
> it makes no sound while running
Looking at a basic NAS on Synology shows that it's around 20 dB, which is admittedly very little, but is not 0.
> and costs maybe pennies to run
Again, looking at the same NAS and using my actual price per kWH, it's around $10 a month.
> there hasn't been a cloud provider without massive reliability or data loss issues
My searches haven't turned up any article about a data loss from any of the 3 big cloud providers. Even the story here, while scary, is just about compressed files, not originals.
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I'm not denying that a NAS has advantages (the fact that it's a lot more than just a data backup), but in the context of backing up files, it's not at all convenient compared to using online solutions.
So you took it out of the shipping box, plugged it to power, and pressed the power button, and everything was up and running?
And since then you haven't had to update any software on it, reboot it, unplug and replug an ethernet cable, shut it down and opened it to add storage, etc.?
> it makes no sound while running
Looking at a basic NAS on Synology shows that it's around 20 dB, which is admittedly very little, but is not 0.
> and costs maybe pennies to run
Again, looking at the same NAS and using my actual price per kWH, it's around $10 a month.
> there hasn't been a cloud provider without massive reliability or data loss issues
My searches haven't turned up any article about a data loss from any of the 3 big cloud providers. Even the story here, while scary, is just about compressed files, not originals.
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I'm not denying that a NAS has advantages (the fact that it's a lot more than just a data backup), but in the context of backing up files, it's not at all convenient compared to using online solutions.