Looking for an easy to use NAS for photo storage at home

I have a Synology DS220+ and use Synology Photos with our iPhones to store photos and videos, which has worked well for my family and me. We also use Amazon and Apple Photos for photo storage. My issue is that I have used most of the Family shared 200GB iCloud, and most of this is photos. Because we have Prime, we get free photo storage. Using the DS220+, I have used over 900GB, but I am unsure how much of this is photos and video. So I have a few questions.

Should I upgrade to a 4-bay NAS
Should I stick with my 2-bay NAS but get bigger HDDs or SSDs
Should I stay with Sonology
Can I sync my NAS and cloud services using Multicloud?

iPhone SE (3rd generation)

Posted on Jun 21, 2024 6:30 PM

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léonie

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Jun 22, 2024 4:44 AM in response to Michael Houser1

to elaborate a bit on Matti's comment about "network shares" - the local copy of your Photos Library needs to be stored locally on your Mac, either on the internal disk or on an external drive with a wired connection. And it cannot be stored in a synced folder of any cloud service, not even on Apple's own iCloud Drive.

The only supported way to save storage and to keep the local copy a Photos Library small is iCloud Photos with "Optimize Mac Storage" enabled.

Jun 21, 2024 10:36 PM in response to Michael Houser1

Beware that Photos libraries are supported on APFS or MacOS Extended -formatted volumes. Non-Mac formats like exFAT, network shares, Time Machine -formatted volumes are not supported and might even corrupt the library.

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Looking for an easy to use NAS for photo storage at home