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This will be £400 with 4x1TB NAS drives (in RAID5 so 3TB usable storage and it can handle one drive failure at any point - will order a spare 1TB drive next month).
3TB is way more than I need (I need 500GB max for my own photos/docs/data) and I have a 1.5TB external HDD as a separate backup. The other space will be future proofing, scratch space and a chunk for my brother to rsync his backup to (I'll be doing the same to the NAS at his house).
NAS = main backup with redundant disks
external HDD = on-site backup in case NAS dies
rsync to brother's NAS = backup in case house burns down
Most useful thing is that I can run other stuff on the NAS (it even supports Docker images) which means I have a single place for a git repo, temp/humidity monitoring server/logs, etc that's all nicely backed up.
Once I've sorted out my old drives the next thing I need to do is to get all of my personal stuff (emails, photos, data) off my work laptop so that can just be for work. I'll probably put a Windows 10 VM on my ESXi box and just remote desktop into it when necessary.