This doesn't sound like a fair comparison for this product. It's true about most subscription services, but if you are ok with 50 GB, then 50 years of storage w

This doesn't sound like a fair comparison for this product. It's true about most subscription services, but if you are ok with 50 GB, then 50 years of storage will cost you $1500, which is pretty much a cost of single Synology station with some drives, WITHOUT amortization cost, if you consider that your drives are not forever and probably need backups anyway. Of course, you'll store much more on a NAS, but if your onlt problem is subscription cost, you don't gain anything by switching to Synology. I personally am considering Ente right now, since having E2EE Google Photos sounds actually pretty cool, despite the fact I have a NAS (a Synology NAS, for that matter). However, my reasons to not using the NAS as you could are different: this is really the place where I store everything, so I prefer having it accessible from local network only. Not sure how you guys feel safe putting something like Synology on the open internet. (Also, I currently don't run it 24/7 anyway, but that's for different reasons, which I hope will become obsolete when I find a better place for the NAS at home.)