Comment by gaudat
2 days ago
>home NAS setups aren't realistic for most users
Citation needed. Get a Synology NAS and use their Photos app which backups Live photos on both iDevices and Androids. Buy it for life.
2 days ago
>home NAS setups aren't realistic for most users
Citation needed. Get a Synology NAS and use their Photos app which backups Live photos on both iDevices and Androids. Buy it for life.
Let's be real, that's already far less approachable to 90% of consumers I know.
The simples hurdle just being knowledge.
The existence of NAS is probably an unknown unkown to a large part of the population.
Compare that to "there's an app for that" & plug USB.
Drastically simpler.
No skin in the game either way, but I can very much understand OPs reasoning and would reach the same conclusion.
I've been doing this for many years and am pretty happy with it. I can sync from my Android and my wife's iPhone. The Photos app is nice and smooth. Backups happen automatically in the background. It can even de-dupe and clean up old photos that have been backed up. All in all, quite pleased with it.
You’re looking at £300ish for an entry level Synology and the storage. That isn’t a realistic expense for many users.
Over time it saves money. I got a home server and a tiny remote backup server 8 years ago and it runs quite a few services saving me hundreds each month and costing in electricity and hardware (over time) about 15EUR/mo. The longer it runs, the cheaper it is. Most of the updates are automatic so no babysitting required.
Synology is still my go to with the model I already purchased. But I'm not sure I'll be buying them again after this:
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/nas/synology-requ...
A Synology NAS doesn’t last for life.
And isn't protection against fire, flood, theft or other disasters.
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