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Good NAS solution for dummies / apple users? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 6 months ago by PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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My parents are looking into getting their own NAS to replace iCloud. I don't really have much experience with that, and zero experience with apple stuff. They are also not very techy, but at least enthusiastic.

Can sombody recommend easy NAS products where you basically just buy a device, do some basic setup, and then it functions as your at-home cloud? I don't want to get roped into doing too much admin for them, but they do already have DDNS for some other smart home crap. Bonus if it's non-US tech.

Personally I run a nextcloud server on a VPS that I could expand, that's not quite selfhosted, I don't know if that integrates well with apple though, are they better off if I just onboard them onto that?

Cheers in advance

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[–] alterelefant@mastodontech.de 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

@PotatoesFall Good to hear your parents are aware of the issues with 'cloud' services and choose to invest in a NAS. To be honest any off the shelf NAS will do. Important is to determine the storage capacity they will be needing for the next five years and add a good 50% to that number. For instance, you expect they need 2.5 TB then you should get 4 TB netto storage.

Depending on your backup strategy and how robust you want the NAS storage to be you can choose a single bay or a multi bay NAS.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah dad was already saying something like "let's just get like 10 tetabytes (sic) so it will be enough for a long time" lol

Thanks I really appreciate it, I might get back to you about the backups.

[–] alterelefant@mastodontech.de 0 points 6 months ago

@PotatoesFall A good off-site data backup is definitely something to look into. Where will you place the NAS and where will the backup be stored? Let me know if you need any guidance on this topic.