[ta0987]

A personal NAS doesn't have the seamless backup of cloud storage. IMO your hardware is much more likely to fail than you are likely to get locked out of your Google account, even if the latter happens to some people. And even if you have backups, now you need to buy new hardware, reinstall, restore, while life is still going on, and during which your data is unavailable. I'd love to not depend on a huge cloud provider but I haven't found a DIY solution that matches the convenience and seamlessness. There are a few rare could sync products that claim client side encryption (SpiderOak, ResilioSync & Tresorit) but they're not fully integrated with Chromebooks, Android and/or iOS. (Right now I'm using a jury-rigged combination of SpiderOak for backup and Resilio Sync for sync, but it's kind of a hack. This is not a compensated endorsement, LOL.)

[darkwater]

OTOH if you get locked out of your BigG account and you don't have a backup elsewhere, you are screwed for good. So, I'd treat HW failures and account closures on the same level. You just have to think about the possibilities in your specific case: which HW are you willing to invest on VS how you are going to behave with your Google account.

[pjc50]

When my wife was having issues with OneDrive I built a small tool which used the API to back up all the files to an external drive, avoiding the OneDrive sync system entirely. Worked quite well. I imagine similar things might be useful for people wanting to back up other cloud accounts.

You can do a Google Takeout but that's huge and therefore painful to do frequently.

[jjkaczor]

>A personal NAS doesn't have the seamless backup of cloud storage>

Synology has various plug-in's/apps that with either synchronize with cloud storage options (i.e. DropBox, OneDrive, etc.) - or backup to cloud storage.

(No, I am not shilling, just been a happy customer of theirs for about 7-years, store about 20tb on my local 5-bay NAS)

[ta0987]

didn't know that, thanks