We also have a Synology. I host a DS1512+ at my place and have 50/25 internet. There are smartphone apps, you can run your own dropbox-like cloud sync, host your own photos... pretty much everything OP wants to do. I have 3 WD Red 3TB drives in RAID5. (Already had one disk die, overnighted a new one, the array rebuilt with no problem and I had full usability of the system the entire time. The replacement drive is now a hot spare.)

We use plex very heavily on it, and it works well. All our HTPC boxes are plugging into my house wide gigabit, but streaming over mobile internet works extremely well with plex. In some cases I spin up a VM on my desktop with plex server on it and use that to stream from if I need extra transcoding power. Since I have a DSLR, I end up taking tons of photos. I have an Eyefi card which I've configured to upload directly to an "instant uploads" folder I've configured in PhotoStation. I come home, and my camera automatically begins uploading the photos to my NAS as soon as it sees my wifi (when I enabled the transfer), and I can view it on my phone or laptop as it uploads.

I own a Synology NAS. It's great and includes plenty of useful features, including a dropbox/box-like application where one can sync files easily to any of their devices. No storage limit (other than the NAS and the storage of whatever devices I'm syncing to) and there's far more other things you can do besides the dropbox-like feature. Why should I pay a monthly fee to let someone else have all my important files, when I can easily host my own? It works great and I never have to worry about some provider getting hacked or changing their TOS.

Of course, one should back up their NAS (and there's plenty of easy ways to do so on the Synology), but the point is if people are concerned about their data, they should take responsibility for it.

Rob,
I've been reading this site nearly since the beginning (though I'm mainly the lurker type) and it has always provided me with some good reading material. I'm happy for the success you've had in this venture and in life and I'm sure that after you take a nice break that you'll find some other thing to be hugely successful in. The comments on your last post are a testament to how many people will miss you on this "little" website you've created.

Thanks and good luck!
James

Apparently you fail to realize this was a 0-day exploit. That is, there were people already exploiting this flaw before anyone else found out about it. Because they didn't release their source code do you feel safer by this? So your argument that the attackers aren't "awesome programmers" is completely worthless because these attackers found and wrote the original exploit code to begin with. We don't know how long this flaw may have been used in the wild before this one was found. Some "awesome programmers" could've been using this flaw years ago to break into networks. Re-read my original reply.

Now some people who happen to have analyzed that exploit figured out just exactly how seriously this flaw is and what could be done with it if it's not fixed.

A simple explanation is plenty.

So you're saying that if all the attackers have is a simple explanation that they wouldn't be able to write code based upon that explanation? Yeah right. The people who wrote these sample exploits didn't even have that to begin with and look at what they've been able to come up with. The people ("attackers") who wrote the originally known exploit didn't need a simple explanation either.

So now virus scan writers and IDS maintainers, etc, now have a LOT more information for how to defend against this particular threat. A simple explanation isn't sufficient. Now scanners and IDS can use these discovered methods to improve detection and prevention of exploitation of this flaw.

Again, I just don't see why someone would need to make the most evil version of this possible and distribute the source code.

Well, I can't explain it any clearer. You're using the "security through obscurity" argument that history has shown to be insufficient for protecting our computers and networks.