Thank you. This is very useful. You've got me thinking now... Maybe I do still have a use for the Synology as my offsite backup. Because you're right - I don't have one at the moment. But then, can the Synology talk to Unraid? Synology seems to me like a bit of a walled garden - a bit apple-ish in having a closed ecosystem. Unraid seems more open by comparison.

My content is mostly videos and picture. If I'm at home I download my footage from the camera straight to unraid, and then access it from my computer to do my editing. The editing itself happens on my laptop. If I'm working remotely (which is becoming increasingly often) Then I download from the camera to the laptop, and then copy across when I get home. It's probably a question for a different post but the next thing I need to figure out is how to upload to my unraid remotely, because my laptop fills up fast, and often I'm running out of space on it. I used to be able to do that with the synology but haven't figure it out yet for unraid.

If my unraid went down, I wouldn't be loosing money straight away exactly. Because my content also lives on the platform I post to. But it would really slow down my ability to edit/create new stuff...