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I haven’t noticed anyone else bring it up, but you mentioned in passing the possibility of using a RAID 0. I’d avoid that except in very specific circumstances. They’re potentially fine for a scratch disk type of scenario, but if any member of the array fails, the whole array is toast. The chances of a failure increases with was each disk added, so a RAID 0 is less reliable than a single disk. I definitely wouldn’t want to trust my family’s photos to it.

I run 120TB on a VM with 2 cores and 2gb of ram. Data storage is not very hardware intensive. Now serving the data to dozens of users is where you're going to have issues.

I backup to Backblaze B2 (6$/TB a month), but I have much less data. I also backup all my data to another disk that lives in the same server. Id probably continue doing manual backups to external drive due to the cost of cloud backups

i think nextcloud will work perfectly fine.

for backups you can either have a secondary server at a relative's home (use syncthing for syncing files) or go for a dedicated server, hetzner is pretty cheap.

You'll have an hard time with Nextcloud for that amount of files and total size. If you plan to sync better pick up something better such as Syncthing as it is robust, it doesn’t fail and handles tons of files with little resources, NC uses a lot more RAM and once you get to around 1 TB of small files it will stop working randomly.

If you just want a simple webUI to browser your files I would pick FileBrowser because it is very reliable and easy to setup. You can easily combine FileBrowser and Syncthing to have a cloud-like experience as well.

Cloud question:

Hetzner Storage Boxes.

Supports Snapshots. Create one every Day the last 30 days. Ez way to have another way of rolling back older backups.

Got 10TB available for ~24€.

Sync up there with rSync Protocol.

To be fair I am backing up from a Synology NAS so I am playing this in EZ-Mode :D

Don't know how easy this is to setup on nextcloud.

Sorry for my bad English btw