Home data storage

Any advice on home NAS? We don’t have huge amounts of data but the current NAS is getting a bit old and I’m worried it’ll just pack up. Options below £150? Use have Ethernet connection and it would be good to have some nice features, cloud access, media storage for example
TIA

Also interested. I've got an old slow as fuck Buffalo NAS and same, worried its just gonna die one day

Why not just go full cloud and take the occasional local backup on disk? Cheaper and more portable. Arguably more secure too unless you are confident with configuring security policy.

Good idea, it seems I get a terabyte with my BT broadband.

I've used a Drobo NAS with WD Red drives for work purposes, was a very robust setup but it was out of your budget by an order of magnitude (we couldn't use cloud storage cos it was historic research data with restrictive permissions). If you don't need to keep the stuff offline then cloud storage is by far a cheaper option.

Any suggestions?

I'm using Owncloud with an S3 backend, which I am rapidly falling out of love with, as the encryption makes things a bit fucky sometimes, leading me to completely re-upload a shit tonne of data)

(I also have a local WD NAS that backs up to a WD cloud, that I sync to my owncloud locally. Because who doesn't love convoluted redundancysetups)

I'm using one of the older model WD My Cloud Duo RAID NAS drives... and can't recommend it. It 'works', and I can keep all my stuff on there, but the software is such a pain in the ass. Accessing it while away from the home hardly ever works.

However, it was pretty cheap, and as long as you're not using the WD software then it's OK. For me it just shows up as a network drive when I'm connected to the home Wi-Fi.

Yeah, they're not good. The cloud backup that is included in the price is useful though.

For a managed service, I can recommend Spideroak which I used for about five years with no problems, including a full restore that went without a hitch. It's a fully encrypted service.

Now days I use a Digital Ocean storage bucket with the free version of cloudberry for syncing. My devices do a nightly incremental backup to cloud and a local USB disk.

Just remembered that I've used s3 storage at Amazon and OVH for work backups recently too. No complaints for any of those services. DIY with S3 really is a piece of cake.

Interesting thread. Anyone have some NAS like storage to stream music from? I'd like all my music to play from a single location.

I use a g suite business account (around £6.60 p/m) for unlimited storage. Can mount as a local drive on MacOS or Windows using Google FS or rclone (for more advanced users). I'm upto 100TB so far :D

Good idea for a thread. G-suite looks good.