my collection of digital media files grew exponentially during the Covid-19 pandemic. I have a rented server with 4x10 GB spinning disks in RAID-10 (= 20 usable TB in total) and the array is already filled with over 10 TB. I expect to hit the full 20 TB in some months time, but this will then also be the maximum storage, that I will need.

However, the server is not horribly expensive, but also not a bargain with monthly payments around EUR 90,00. I wonder whether it would make sense to have the data at home instead. I have a home internet connection with 100 Mbit upload capacity, so even hosting my data at home for access on the go could be an option.

What would be your choice for the job? A NAS? Something else? I have no idea what the current "state of the art" solution is. It is important to me to at least have the data in a RAID-1 array. No Raid or Raid-0 is not an option. I know that a Raid Array is no replacement for backups, but it would let me sleep better anyhow. A NAS would be my first idea, but I saw that they are not cheap and I wonder whether going on renting the server (with free hardware replacements) isn't the better choice in the end...

Thank you very much in advance for your ideas and suggestions!

Stay negative or at least keep it mild & kind regards
Amitz