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Advice on NAS for home use and iphone backup - sai_adinarayanan - 08-10-2025
Dear NAS Users,
I am simple home user who currently backup laptop to an external hard disk and iphone to iCloud using paid subscription. The laptop backup to external hard disk is quite irregular and the need more icloud space keeps on increasing and i dont want to shell out money on the costly icloud.
I was looking for different alternatives to make automated backups of laptops and iphones for my whole family and settled with NAS as my best alternative.
I am aware NAS cannot backup an iphone as an icloud, but i can use NAS to backup photos through NAS and for actual backup of iphone guess i still might have to use a small amount of icloud space or do backups over wifi using the laptops which backup to NAS automatically.
With this being said, after some considerable research I was convinced to use synology DS725+ as it offers decent hardware where I can use to start with SATA HDDs and later on I can also expand to SATA SSDs or NVME SSDs for storage. Also it offers good amount of ram expansion. Also DSM seems to offer a well mature, user friendly and competetive backup options for photos and laptops etc.
But my problem with DS725+ is that synology now supports only synology HDDs/SSDs/NVME 2 SSDs whereas WD and Seagate are way more superior in the HDD/SSD market and trustable and has competitive pricing. Also if i want to upgrade RAM, I need to buy from synology. This I am not comfortable with.
Can you please advice me which other NAS has good hardware as well as proper software for the above needs which will be supported long term.
Also, is it possible if i build a custom NAS and use TRUE NAS, will my requirements be solved and will I get long term support?
If you have other advice for my requirments, those are also welcome. Thanks in advance.
Thanks and regards,
Adi