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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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[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Synology. Although I'm sure other ready made NAS machines will probably work and be chapter if you want to explore.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

QNAP gives more bang for the money.

cheers I'll check them out

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Euh depending what you get. Don't be fooled by their "ZFS" offering. It is a very very outdated and forked form of ZFS. I converted to TrueNAS scale with my qnap recently. Worked great. Although some things you have to do a rather advanced for more casual users.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago

I had the lower end one when I switched from Synology, 2-Bay. Everything was the same, a few UI differences, same functionality. Don't know what it looks like today since I moved to ProxMox, and just backup everything to it and then 3-2-1 it, but it can't have gotten harder to use, can it?

I've heard that name a lot so they must be serious, thanks