Need help choosing a Readynas for Home

Cmaker3 - just my opinion. I have never been enamored with on-line or "cloud" storage. While it does provide the "off site" backup that is necessary for your data, it is rather expensive, with even the least costly still fairly expensive and then you have the fact that some one else is responsible for your data security. A few years back there was an on line storage company that went under and just turned off the servers without notification. While not a problem for those for whom it was a true backup, some were storing live data there and it was suddenly gone.

For years, while I was working, I used a portable drive to back up my critical data and took it to work and kept it in my desk at the office 26 miles away. Since I retired, I no longer have a desk in an office 26 miles away, so now I use the SD box at my bank which is also 26 miles away. I use small WD Passport drives and swap them every month. Again, this is my aw shucks backup in case something takes out the house. Of course if I have time to evacuate, the second thing loaded in the car will by the primary NAS, right after the dogs.

While ferrying a small portable drive back and forth periodically is a bit of a pain, for you have to remember to update it and take it with you, it is far less expensive than cloud storage.