This is the dilemma I’m facing Stuart, do I really need one? With cloud storage, that would seem to be a good solution as you don’t have to run your own NAS but get access from any machine connected to the internet. The thing that concerns me is security of the data. This is fine with open source code, as you could consider GitHub etc. to be a ‘cloud’ based backup solution for your code as it replicates what you have locally. But other private data, even if it is encrypted? Then there is the amount, I’ve taken a lot of railway and wildlife photos / videos of steam engines / memories of time etc. Just checking, that’s 1.11TB of space and that would, I suspect, cost quite a bit to store on a cloud service. But I don’t need access to it all of the time, this is more of a backup thing for me. But it would make things easier (I think) if I backed up over the network to a NAS then it ran a backup to an external drive(s) as a separate automated process. I think its down to knowing for certain when the time comes that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and the investment both in time and money is worth it. I do have an old working PC and spare HD, so there is the possibility of trying a self build and see what it does.