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My Synology NAS has a pretty good take on personal cloud storage, after I put a domain and SSL on it (which they make really easy with Lets Encrypt) it's pretty

My Synology NAS has a pretty good take on personal cloud storage, after I put a domain and SSL on it (which they make really easy with Lets Encrypt) it's pretty much interchangeable with a bunch of cloud services for music, files, tv/video etc. Primarily open source too, they've really done a slick web interface for linux. Given we're on the brink of putting an extra terabyte or two into your phone or tablet etc I think cloud storage is really going to boil down to allowing others' access.

LongTermBond007 10y ago
I've been looking into doing something similar for an offsite backup for my extensive photo collection- how much storage do you have and how much did it cost you?
- benologist 10y ago
  I opted for a tiny little 2.5" drive version with 4 bays so currently it's limited to 8tb for now, they do 2 - 8 bay units for 3.5" drives which is probably more suitable for massive storage requirements, and with USB3 ports you can attach additional terabytes effortlessly. They also have additional devices to put even more drives in that extend your NAS storage. $280 with separate drives - https://www.amazon.com/Synology-DS416slim-NAS-DiskStation/dp/B00LB0E9B4 https://www.amazon.com/Synology-DS416slim-NAS-DiskStation/dp... One very cool part is it has sync software that can automatically sync all or some of your stuff - one way or bidirectional - to dropbox, google drive, backblaze, amazon glacier etc for backups and public access. There's a fork of their software here to install on other devices too - https://xpenology.me https://xpenology.me
  - ValentineC 10y ago
    > There's a fork of their software here to install on other devices too - https://xpenology.me https://xpenology.me It's not a fork so much as a custom bootloader for Synology's version of Linux. Here's the official forum: http://xpenology.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2 http://xpenology.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2

LongTermBond007 10y ago

I've been looking into doing something similar for an offsite backup for my extensive photo collection- how much storage do you have and how much did it cost you?

benologist 10y ago
I opted for a tiny little 2.5" drive version with 4 bays so currently it's limited to 8tb for now, they do 2 - 8 bay units for 3.5" drives which is probably more suitable for massive storage requirements, and with USB3 ports you can attach additional terabytes effortlessly. They also have additional devices to put even more drives in that extend your NAS storage. $280 with separate drives - https://www.amazon.com/Synology-DS416slim-NAS-DiskStation/dp/B00LB0E9B4 https://www.amazon.com/Synology-DS416slim-NAS-DiskStation/dp... One very cool part is it has sync software that can automatically sync all or some of your stuff - one way or bidirectional - to dropbox, google drive, backblaze, amazon glacier etc for backups and public access. There's a fork of their software here to install on other devices too - https://xpenology.me https://xpenology.me
- ValentineC 10y ago
  > There's a fork of their software here to install on other devices too - https://xpenology.me https://xpenology.me It's not a fork so much as a custom bootloader for Synology's version of Linux. Here's the official forum: http://xpenology.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2 http://xpenology.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2