Buying a nas is easy. Most of them support backups. The good ones support containers which takes some of the pain out of what you're working with.

But the nas are fairly expensive, They don't have as long of a lifespan as you would expect. And then you're also beholden to the company for updates, and policy changes. (Synology is currently on their way to requiring you to use their own branded drives, you didn't used to have to do that but they're slowly taking away features)

Only you can decide what makes sense to you. Hey Naz is an easy, slick solution where you're putting the care and ability for long-term access in someone else's hands. Building your own system even with something like unrade is still a hell of a lot of work. But then you get to decide how everything works.

Do what feels right for you.

My synology does sod all but email me package updates I must do, so maybe just get an external SSD or something.

Also, RAID is not for backup, as mistakes get synced across. If you’re worried about bad sectors, backup your data in totally different places.

A nas is just a crippled home server. Just run a home server and it can act as your nas, too, and not be crippled. You don’t need a rack mount solution just build a pc in your price range (I built an i3 server this year for around $200 that will blow any NAS out of the fucking water) and install the appropriate OS/Software. All it does is run plex now, but I’m thinking of stealing some of your privacy focused ideas maybe I’ll setup next cloud, too :)

Build your own NAS. It doesn't need to be quite as beefy as a gaming computer or personal computer, but a lot of companies that make NAS devices are making them more and more proprietary.

So PC with TrueNAS or Unraid or something similar. Don't get sucked into an ecosystem that won't let you use your own drives.

It's a bit mortifying to admit, particularly given my tendencies toward data hoarding and building hardware for the long haul, but I've historically bypassed the whole NAS concept. My methodology has been straightforward: a motherboard with sufficient SATA ports (eight or so) and a collection of HDDs crammed into a standard desktop tower. It works, technically. But I'm now hearing a lot of chatter about NAS solutions, and I'm wondering what I'm missing. What's the compelling reason to introduce networking into this equation when I already have direct access to all my drives? What are the practical advantages of a NAS that justify the added complexity and cost?

Self-built.

Maybe not what you want, but I'm running Nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi (4B to be precise). I would highly recommend that if you're looking for a cloud-like experience with auto-uploads etc. Plus you can host all your calendars and contacts via it too. Just make sure you're not running it from the SD card (use an external SSD), as I had some trouble with bricked SDs.

You should be able to use some form of symmetric encryption on a cloud storage.

You could even do restic backup to a cloud storage like Icedrive.

Personnaly I hate all the companies that are saying they are trust worthy because they are swiss, but nevermind this is not your question. Personnaly I wouldn't recommended you at all a "prebuilt" NAS as later you will be stuck in a proprietary env that not gonna serve you well. So buy a cheap PC out of eBay and customize it to your needs

Edit : typo

Depends what you want to spend and how much you want to do with it.

If you've got the technical ability and interest, look into building one yourself (they're just computers, just usually with a lot of storage) and running FreeNAS or UnRAID as the OS.

If you want a bit more of a plug and play solution, both Synology and QNAP are good brands. I'd also recommend over-provisioning the NAS in terms of bays. Sure 2 drives might be fine today, but it's nice to have room for expansion down the line.

Whatever you choose, you'll be able to run nextcloud and similar

(Also your English is great, don't sweat it!)

Syncthing

https://lemmy.world/post/28313324

Can you provide a reference to the Swiss privacy law you refer to? Also on Infomaniak and curious.

The simple answer is: Yes! If you want to be completely sure no one is accessing your data - now or in the future - then you have to host it yourself. There are companies and countries that are more trustworthy/safe than others, but you never know how politics will change.

I've been using a Synology NAS for ages, and I can wholeheartedly recommend it! Especially if you don't have that much experience with Linux and servers, but also if you want something that's more Plug-n-Play and stable, or you want access to some of their proprietary services or really good customer support. Just make sure you get one that supports Docker, because that's how you'll install most if not all of the 3rd party services.

That being said, building one yourself can also be great fun, and you do have that one additional level of control if everything is open-source and installed by you.

Well you could do that but honestly a NAS is "just" yet another computer with a specific form factor. So ... do buy one if you want to but nothing is preventing you from grabbing whatever hardware you have around, e.g. old laptop, unused SBC like a Raspberry Pi, desktop gathering dust, put Docker or Podman on it, get going. If you want access from the outside you can use TailScale (easiest to setup), WireGuard indeed or OpenVPN.

Yes IMHO having your own data on your own NAS where you entirely control access (e.g. LAN only, no VPN even unless you go on holiday) is the safest and most reliable.

kSuite. (I left Proton cause of the lack of webdav, caldav, carddav)

Interesting, I'll check that because indeed for now the support is not non-existent yet still not good enough IMHO.

If that's all you're after (Contact, Calender, Drive) you may well be able to just plug a hard drive into your OpenWRT router (it has https://openwrt.org/packages/pkgdata/radicale2 which does caldav and carddav), work out sharing (apparently at least samba works) work out how to back up the drive (plug in two, mirror and unplug one, RAID is not a backup) and call it a day. I don't have one, but it seems likely doable... Tailscale in when you're out and about...