[shallmn]

So you will not have recurring costs hosting your own system? No hard drive replacements, upgrades, board replacements, wholesale technology upgrades when different networking or security protocols come along, capacity upgrades, and your time and energy? For most people, paying a small amount per year to place this burden on someone else is money well spent.

[perryizgr8]

I'm assuming that you already have part of the infrastructure at home for other purposes (a network, a gaming PC, a media server, etc.). All that can also utilise the same NAS.

I guess if you feel paying for terabytes of Google drive is not much of an expense more power to you. It's certainly fire and forget. I find it too expensive, and irritating to keep paying for all the historical data I've generated. When my RAID is about to reach capacity, I buy a couple of 4 TB drives and that's it. No subscription to worry about.