Reducing my reliance on cloud storage

[willhub]

Apologies if this isn't the correct place to post this.

I see I'm paying £11 a month nearly for cloud storage, 1TB for me and 1TB for my GF, but that's all we're paying for.

I do wonder if I'd be better off reducing my reliance on that and having an in-house solution where I can remotely backup my phone pictures and also perhaps store data for the PC for quick access?

I've got 900Mbit upload/download which I presume would be sufficient for smooth access remotely?

I'm just unsure about what sort of cost and what sort of hardware would be required?

Cheers.

 

[willhub]

So after this post I think the cloud storage price I appreciate more, however perhaps a NAS or something would be worth while just for quick access storage for computers in my network, games etc.. but when I share it from my PC the speeds are horrendous.

 

[willhub]

I would use server to store media, photos (1TB+), then other media like movies, 7TB so far.

I actually wonder if I should just use my desktop as a server, as I essentially treat it as that, I stream from it 80% of the time for everything from gaming to everything I'd normally use a desktop for.

But I just think the power usage at idle for a 5800x3d and a 4080 might be overkill? Unless I can tweak it so it's all ultra low power usage with a "non-gaming" profile and switch it when I want to play games.

Or maybe some dual boot solution, I don't know.

My desktop is connected via 1Gbit wired connection to an eero router.