Build your own NAS server
One of the banes of modern technology is how to keep your digital information safe. While modern PC's are quite reliable, often you are only one hardware failure away from losing irreplaceable documents, photos and videos. Therefore it is critical that you have some sort of backup solution. The solution will often depend on the size of the files. Documents can often be backed up to the cloud using things like box or google drive, but cloud storage has its own issues and I would nor rely on it. While for small amounts of data it can be cheap and convenient, even with super-fast broadband backing up even moderately large files can be tedious and soon you will find yourself paying yearly subscription fees as your storage requirements increase. The alternative then is some sort of local backup. I take a lot of photographs, and recently I have been continually hitting the limits of my disk space, which has forced me to continually prune images. It seemed like a good time there