&gt; With the wide availability of cheap backup services like backblaze, this nas building nonsense is a complete waste of time.<p>My home upload speed is 3mbps.<p>I make weekly image backups on top of my increment file backups. The images are ~800GB and 200GB. Additionally, I have a ~1TB media collection.<p>Uploading the images to Backblaze weekly is clearly unfeasible. Restoring from old images in the event of a failure would be extremely time consuming.<p>Therefore, I have a 14 TB NAS that should last me a long, long while and also serves as a Plex media server. To lose data I really care about requires that four drives &#x2F; two computers fail or my house burns down. I am willing to accept that risk.