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Alright, so you're telling me I should invest year 2 of a Backblaze sub in having a second NAS set up off-site?

That still pays off pretty quickly.

Alright, look, in all honesty, what you want is to mix and match. I'm not gonna sit here and break down my entire data storage strategy, but you do want multiple solutions in parallel. The point of NAS is that you get mass storage you fully control, so it's most cost effective for things that are huge and that you want on hand. Like, say, backing up your physical media or your digital purchases. That's pretty close to good enough, since you probably retain access to your disks or your subscriptions and the NAS acts as a backup anyway.

Sure, despite my UPS protection and data redundancies my NAS could be nuked froom orbit and all of the stuff in it could die. And Google Drive could at some point decide to just poof six months of user data into the ether. What you really want is two separate backup solutions. Just don't go nuts and acknowledge that your source media is also a copy of your media. This is an expensive rabbit hole. I still wouldn't pay thousands of dollars a year for somebody else to run my mass storage. It's more cost effective to keep the huge stuff in a NAS and perhaps a backup in a DAS box somewhere. Unless you're curating a museum or doing life and death research that's probably more than enough security for your media files.