I use Amazon Photos' AWS for photos since it's unlimited for Prime members and they don't compress your files. Google says they compress your files. I also get unlimited storage at my SmugMug account (also owned/served by AWS), but SmugMug has screwed up my site several times from internal migrations. Now my site has been hacked by Chinese VIagra sellers. I hear good things about OneDrive, and of course our enterprise accounts at work are all OneDrive.

I've been meaning to install my own NAS for over a decade now. Never seem to be able to decide on which NAS/drives. etc. I don't think I'll ever have a satisfactory back-up/photo-storage solution. Everything is such a goddamned pain in the ass. We've actually been storing our retired iPhones as "backup" devices for our iPhone photos and videos (in addition to the overpriced Apple storage plans we have).

I was at one point thinking of buying two commercial dye-sublimation printers (one up to 5" x7" and one up 8.5" x 12"), and printing EVERY photo I have from every piece of storage media in the house. Hard-copy—the best back-up because it's format-independent, viewable by any version of human-vision, can't be hacked, and can't be compressed (though it can catch on fire).

I'm just so sick of this problem. I have piles of crashed HDDs with photos which will never be recovered because I've never had a consistent back-up plan in place. My GF has been nagging me for the last seven years to give her her pictures she has on an HDD I temporarily "borrowed." Of course they'e on a FireWire HDD, for which I have no computer to connect (well, now I do). The struggle is real!

Instead of spinning my archive forever I just use 500gig 2.5" laptop sata ssds in a dual Kingwin hot-swaper that mounts in a 3.5" or 5-1/4" drive bay. When I run benches, I get run-times with projects on these competitive with transferring them to internal m.2 Nvme ssds... Vegas is not as sensitive to disk io speed as folks think. But I usually transfer them anyway so I have 2 copies of the shoot media in case I blast it on my work drive by accident. Transfer back and forth is pretty quick when they're new. Had good success with SP and Pioneer in the $50 range. 1TB ones run about $90. Subscription free. Or for a few $$$s more go for a Samsung 870. 2-4 TB ones are also available but the price climbs steeply. When the project's done, pop em out and file em away.

Sounds like a slick solution. With used PC servers being so cheap, I may just buy a server dedicated to back-up duty instead of a NAS. Fill it chock-full of new Samsng SSDs and be done with it. Or, I guess set up both a storage-server and a standalone NAS for some redundancy, since some NAS' are fairly set-and-forget, if you have decent software to run them.