It is no surprise that our data needs are growing faster. When I reminisce using my old analog camera. I had to be very sure not to waste the reel clicking random photographs, but be very specific about the subject. All that changed when I got my hands on digital camera, you can click as many as you want as long as you have the memory card. Over the years, the improvements have made take high resolution pictures, 4k movies and so on. This has increased the amount of data storage requirements not just for professionals but average home users as well. And to date the easiest and the most economical solution was cloud storage. With every new account with a cloud storage service provider, you get a 5-10GB could access for free. For your future data requirements, you must subscribe to the “pay as you go” model, where you pay for the additional data incrementally. But your data needs would even grow bigger, it would shoot up. And the current model of pay as go will cost you an arm, it is expensive. Additionally, a new threat has emerged in the neighbourhood - artificial intelligence. You wouldn’t want companies to use your cloud data to train their machines, no matter how unimportant your data may seem. Now, here comes a unique solution to building a home server just for your needs. A network attached storage (NAS) for your home explicitly, a home server. It has a multitude of benefits and there are plenty materials on how to build it. I would still prefer TrueNAS SCALE over other solutions, but your needs may be different. If you don’t like the challenge to build it yourself or don’t want to waste time on it. There are service providers who are offering NAS solutions for home users as well such as Synology, QNAP and many more. Only one caveat with these service providers is you will have to pay for the overheads of managing your system. If you build it on your own, you will derive better value for your money. On top of that, you can choose to make your home server local and just use it as a backup solution. There are other vendors that provide backup solution for storage, but you will miss out on the additional benefits that NAS has to provide. It is a joy to build your own home server, if you are up for it.