No problem, friend.

Feel free to ask if you need some help setting stuff up and good luck!

Yes, end-to-end. Only you have access to the files. Proton does not.

Yes Sir.

I do a backup of Proxmox to the NAS once a week and auto-delete anything older than one month, and I upload those and all pictures and critical files to the cloud. Critical files being personal data, information about the house, insurance papers etc.
Personally I use Proton and have 1 TB, which has been more than enough. It is also encrypted.

Movies, music and TV shows are not backed up as I don’t consider them critical at all. It can all be re-downloaded if needed.

I know there is unRAID and TrueNAS, but I went with a traditional NAS (Synology, before all the fuckery) and a small N100 NUC on the side.
The NAS is critical for the whole family with backups, pictures and general files, so I need it to be 110%. On it, I just run the .arr stack, Surveilance Station and Qbit, and the NUC runs all my other containers like Jellyfin and Home Assistant. Full access to the files via NFS and it gives me good power for transcoding when needed. Even 4K high bitrate files play seamlessly on WiFi now.

It’s been rock solid and I would probably do it the same way again if I had to rebuild.

Best of luck finding the appropriate solution for your needs, mate!

Cheers mate. It’s an inline fan with a max draw of <40W, so I’m hoping the inrush won’t be to bad.

Thanks for the feedback on plugs. Great to see people being happy with so many brands!

Interesting! Thanks friend!

Cheers! A bit pricier here, but looks to fit the bill

Cheers mate. Aquara I can find, so I’ll have a look at it!

Thank you for the advice! I’ll read up on them!

They keep coming up. Must be decent, I reckon. Go for gen.3 or wait for 4?

Cheers!

Cheers mate! I’ll read up on it. Matter over WiFi is fine, I just don’t have a Thread router yet

Yeah Shelly and Meross seem to fit the bill quite well, and can run local only. Leaning towards those two.

Cheers!

Sadly I can’t find the inrush current on it, but I’m hoping it will be fine. If I burn one, I’ll look to build some sort of soft starter myself.
This hobby has turned into a deep rabbit hole long ago anyways….

Thank you for the advice!

I need to read more up on athom. Seems like a cool store! Cheers

Shelly seems popular and is available in black. Happy wife, happy life, ey…

Cheers mate. On the short list!

Appreciate advice on what to stay away from too, so thanks for that!

Sadly I can’t find these locally, but I appreciate the advice!

I found this locally, but only in white sadly.
It’s on the short list nonetheless. Thank you!

Cheers! Good advice on inrush current as I don’t think it has a soft start built in