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I'm in IT and have fucked around with various NASs and different RAID setups for decades. What will annoy my fellow nerds, but is an absolute truth, is that Amazon photos, which is 'free' with Prime is a far, far better solution in terms of convenience, usability and reliability than anything else I've been doing. We've tens of thousands of photos synched to it and, not only that, we actually go back and look at these memories frequently as it's setup as a screen saver on our firesticks and other devices. We've literally watched a movie as a family and then spent half an hour after watching the picture slideshows that come up. Other than being part of the Amazon ecosystem which I know will garner righteous hatred (and perhaps rightly), I genuinely can't fault it and sleep easy knowing that my stuff is safe.
Incoming hatred because Amazon, like you said.
I used it for years, and it works well, and it's the cheapest option if you're already paying for prime, but fuck that shit I cancelled prime and don't miss it.
I have immich on a NAS, my phones backup to it, and I manually upload from my cameras. I have the NAS synced to a remote NAS I keep in another country with syncthing (not an option for everyone I know, but also not strictly necessary), which is backed up to Backblaze. Though that's getting expensive and beginning to enshitify so will likely figure out another solution soon.
Building a new NAS soon and I'll be looking at new cloud backup options then.
Get it, and I am not a fan of the company, but we live in rural Scotland -and simply cannot economically buy all the thing we need locally. Prime has the 'free' postage, so we basically hold our nose and use it. Not proud of that, but it is what it is and Prime photos just works.
If it works for you, who cares what others think. Sounds like a great time watching memories with your family.