Getting low on Google Cloud space

[Beerislife]

Currently my Google account shows:

Google Photos (10.8 GB)
Drive, Gmail and more (1.6 GB)
12.5 GB of 17 GB used

So, do I delete old photos from Google and free up some space (All downloaded
and backed up already)

Or pay Google 2,500 yen a year for a whopping 100Gb of space so they can train
their AI on my data?

Or get a one or two bay Synology NAS and NAS HDD(s) and install the Synology
Photos app on my phone to sync my photos from anywhere?

Or turn a cheap mini PC into a NAS using TrueNAS, OpenMediaVault, or Debian
server and CasaOS?

Will this solution offer me the option to sync my photos from my phone from
outside though? It's obviously not as easy to setup as a dedicated NAS too!

The Synology two bay is about 29,000 yen plus disks and has 1Gb RAM and an
ARM CPU.

A mini PC would be under 20,000 yen and have at least 4Gb RAM and an Intel
N100 CPU, plus an extra bay for another NVMe SDD or a 2.5" HDD/SDD!

I've watched so may videos on this lately that my head is about to explode!

What do people here do?

[Virginio Miranda]

.......

Will this solution offer me the option to sync my photos from my phone from
outside though? It's obviously not as easy to setup as a dedicated NAS too!

.......

What do people here do?

Run a Cloud on your PC. It will sync everything from and for your smartphone in the way that you can access in every place you have access to the net, and not only for smartphone but for PCs , Nas ,,,and others too. Goodbye for google photos, for google drive and so on. Gmail is still important, i think.

[claydoh]

Or turn a cheap mini PC into a NAS using TrueNAS, OpenMediaVault,

Or any cheap non-mini PC with drive bays -- I started with this myself.
Openmediavault + Docker + Immich + nextcloud-aio + reverse proxy (nginx proxy manager) for external access to services is what I have (I need to find the money to ship that PC across the oceans, $$$$ and then some)

a pre-built NAS will be a LOT easier but you will be locked in, Truenas possibly decently easy. and OMV being....well.... your normal linux hands on DIY-ish (and Debian) with an extreme active community.
Immich is an excellent google photos clone, but Nexcloud can do this well enough on top of being a reasonable google-docs replacement (both have phone sync apps as well)

[Beerislife]

It's got to be super easy in case something happens to me, for the boss to use and maintain, or get someone to help her
with. I think I'm going to go for something simple like a Synology Beestation.

I've taught her several times how to update her Chromebook with no luck!

[cookiemuncher]

I bought a refurbished Lenovo M910q mini-pc with a 200GB nvme drive which I installed Openmediavault onto. I am using a 500GB SSD for data storage. Works well for me.

I have Frigate, Heimdall, Jellyfin, Plex, Portainer, Qbittorrent, Nginx and wetty installed under OMV using docker compose.

I also rsync a whole lot of stuff onto my desktop as second backup.

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs           783M  7.4M  776M   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p1  233G  9.8G  212G   5% /
tmpfs           3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs           3.9G   88K  3.9G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda1       458G  330G  105G  76% /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-c9578a42....
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4.0K    docker
8.0K    aquota.group
8.0K    aquota.user
36K     compose
44K     media
220K    config
1.6M    data
91M     frigate
845M    appdata
11G     Music
20G     Backups
29G     Email-backups
32G     Movies
32G     Videos
72G     Downloads
97G     Pictures
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[claydoh]

My setup on my self-built from new and used/existing parts: starting with the i5-8400T, 16Gb ran, a small nvme for the OS, 4 HDDs as well as a small SATA ssd I had lying around. The ITX board and Fractal Node 304 case are new, the rest of the system is used and already-owned parts.

tbh OMV can run from a USB stick as it runs the OS mostly in Ram, so I may go for that and use the nvme for things like docker, or just as another data drive, probably for virtual machines.

NFS server for multiple backup schemes from different PC on my home network

Nextcloud-AIO - documents sync and online editing, etc. (too many features for my needs)
Immich + its mobile app for fantastic google images-like services

Jellyfin+ qbittorrent + vpn --- duh

pihole

nginx proxy manager - so I can use immich and nexcloud remotely through my domain
and some other bits I was playing with but can't recall.

I don't use portainer any longer, as the built-in Docker UI OMV has is better/easier for me, or at least I find it easier to work with.

I have been working with Tailscale here in the upside-down land, but I am not sure if I will add my NAS to that or not once I ship it down here, other than Just Because I Can.

[Beerislife]

An UnRAID NAS in Your Pocket - NICE! (Minisforum S100 Review)

This dude is interesting but non Brits may have trouble understanding some of his English!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpUx75OpfJY