> Most importantly it's not a full time job maintaining it, I spend maybe an hr a month if that checking up on it. Exactly, I want my family to be able to get

> Most importantly it's not a full time job maintaining it, I spend maybe an hr a month if that checking up on it. Exactly, I want my family to be able to get the photos if I suddenly get hit by a bus. Noone is gonna be able to deal with your custom server/cronjob/etc. crap in case anything happens to you. Over the past decade I have migrated back and forth between cloud storage and a NAS. Both of them need upkeep, either to keep footing the bill or to check the drives and replace them if they die. I think anyone who is serious about this needs something you can put in a closet/safe/bank vault and a decade later it will still work, and the best bet is optical disks, they were suppose to last hundred years +, but that industry is kind of on it's last legs and we were never sure how accurate the longevity claims are.