lol people comparing their NAS as if its equivalent to iCloud. When your wife gets her phone stolen and you can get a new phone and restore the phone anywhere in the world w/ your NAS, then we’ll talk. Anything personal, I store on Apple’s servers.
They’re probably going to up the 4 camera HKSV limit that was present @ the 2TB tier too.
Exactly right.
I've got a nice big Synology NAS at home, a second one at a family member's house, and we cross-replicate nightly across a wireguard tunnel.
It all works great, gives me georedundancy and safety.
I ALSO still pay for iCloud storage. Why?
Because it's so deeply integrated into iOS.
Photo backup, for example, absolutely blows without it.
ANY backup except iCloud sucks under iOS. Whatever app you're using - once it gets forced to background sleep, your backups grind to a halt.
That's the kind of thing that bites you when you need to (as you said) explain to your wife that "oh, yeah, that app you kept swiping up? Yeah, that was the backup app. And now your phone is at the bottom of the lake, and you haven't run backups in 6 months."
So my NAS does my file and Mac backups, and iCloud handles my iOS backups. And when I'm feeling really plucky, I'll backup my phone to my Mac once in a blue moon, so the Time Machine -> Synology -> replica infrastructure picks it up too.
