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I suppose it depends on your needs, but I've had a very simple backup disc attached to a router (an Asus one) via USB in the past which provided what I needed.

Are you looking for a NAS where you will just move files to as you need it, or thinking more about a dedicated backup server that routinely grabs data and backs it up, including identifying changes etc etc. The former is more what I had (I do have a proper consumer grade NAS as well), the latter is more complex and I would suspect buying a fully built system from a provider would be a better choice in the long run unless you had the tech capabilities to manage and configure the server yourself (which you may well have!)

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For various reasons, I would like to build a home server for back-up and storage reasons so that I can move away from using external hard drives as erratic back-up.

I also want to be able to dump stuff from my phone to clear it out more frequently.

What is the best/cheapest way to do this?

I probably don't need more than a maximum 4TB back-up space - but do I need to double this and have 2x 4TB to enable a back-up? I know SSDs rarely fail (certainly compared to HDD), but it is poss...

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