Large File Sharing
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what is the type of design file and do you need simultaneous access?? So Far NextCloud is probably a good option
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@JaredBusch said in Large File Sharing:
Correct moving to online editing is the only solution. Get away from legacy sharing concepts is what is required.
Piggy-backing. What if these files are larger media files like, psd, ai, jpg, raw and even video? Do you know of something that works well (for at least the still image media)?
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@Kyle said in Large File Sharing:
@hobbit666 Large files, 200-900 Gb design files.
Then file sharing is the wrong term here.
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@Obsolesce said in Large File Sharing:
@Kyle said in Large File Sharing:
@hobbit666 Large files, 200-900 Gb design files.
Then file sharing is the wrong term here.
OK. I will bite. What is the correct term?
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@Kyle said in Large File Sharing:
@hobbit666 Large files, 200-900 Gb design files.
If they're truly that large, and your workforce is remotely accessing them, you might consider going to a full VDI solution, especially VMWare Horizon with Tesla cards for graphic and processing enhancements.
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@Grey said in Large File Sharing:
@Kyle said in Large File Sharing:
@hobbit666 Large files, 200-900 Gb design files.
If they're truly that large, and your workforce is remotely accessing them, you might consider going to a full VDI solution, especially VMWare Horizon with Tesla cards for graphic and processing enhancements.
I agree with this. You don't want to move those files at all if possible. They need to be on a 10 gigabit connection to the machines working on the files.
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@coliver said in Large File Sharing:
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@Dashrender said in Large File Sharing:
RDP to a desktop near the share would be another option as well. Though performance could still be bad.
No that isn't an option...
Why not?
Because they are sharing. How many RDP are you going to set up?
You could do an RDP Gateway and just have a single outbound connection.... but it's really not ideal, RDP isn't the fastest or lightest protocol.
Better than you think.
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@Grey said in Large File Sharing:
@Kyle said in Large File Sharing:
@hobbit666 Large files, 200-900 Gb design files.
If they're truly that large, and your workforce is remotely accessing them, you might consider going to a full VDI solution, especially VMWare Horizon with Tesla cards for graphic and processing enhancements.
VDI doesn't matter, versus terminal servers. Both are just the "RDP" solution mentioned above. Yes, you might not actually use RDP, but just a replacement protocol. But lots of VDI is RDP, most, probably.
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@dafyre said in Large File Sharing:
@coliver said in Large File Sharing:
@JaredBusch said in Large File Sharing:
@dafyre said in Large File Sharing:
@Obsolesce said in Large File Sharing:
@Dashrender said in Large File Sharing:
RDP to a desktop near the share would be another option as well. Though performance could still be bad.
No that isn't an option...
Why not?
Because they are sharing. How many RDP are you going to set up?
You could do an RDP Gateway and just have a single outbound connection.... but it's really not ideal, RDP isn't the fastest or lightest protocol.
True, but in this case, being closer to the file(s) they need to edit would make most things a lot faster than a VPN -- especially if that VPN had to upload a big file over a crappy connection.
Right, typically RDP is worlds faster here.
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@scottalanmiller Have you ever seen NextCloud installed successfully on a Synology?
Came across this while researching solutions. https://luvis.se/software/install-nextcloud-on-synology-dsm-6/
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@scottalanmiller said in Large File Sharing:
@Grey said in Large File Sharing:
@Kyle said in Large File Sharing:
@hobbit666 Large files, 200-900 Gb design files.
If they're truly that large, and your workforce is remotely accessing them, you might consider going to a full VDI solution, especially VMWare Horizon with Tesla cards for graphic and processing enhancements.
VDI doesn't matter, versus terminal servers. Both are just the "RDP" solution mentioned above. Yes, you might not actually use RDP, but just a replacement protocol. But lots of VDI is RDP, most, probably.
Oh, it matters. However, this discussion/comparison is off topic and will have to wait until we have a scotch so the entire bar can be annoyed at us.
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First you look at official solutions for the application that uses that document. Then you look at third party solutions that will work for the document type (like Perforce), then you look at IT workarounds (like RDS)
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@Kyle said in Large File Sharing:
@scottalanmiller Have you ever seen NextCloud installed successfully on a Synology?
Came across this while researching solutions. https://luvis.se/software/install-nextcloud-on-synology-dsm-6/
No, but to be fair I've never seen it unsuccessfully installed on one, either
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@scottalanmiller said in Large File Sharing:
@Kyle said in Large File Sharing:
@scottalanmiller Have you ever seen NextCloud installed successfully on a Synology?
Came across this while researching solutions. https://luvis.se/software/install-nextcloud-on-synology-dsm-6/
No, but to be fair I've never seen it unsuccessfully installed on one, either
so useful
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Torrents might be the best way to share. You could set up a private tracker and have each client use that.
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Or reading through again, are these documents, or large files like videos and CAD files?
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@Kyle said in Large File Sharing:
@scottalanmiller Have you ever seen NextCloud installed successfully on a Synology?
Came across this while researching solutions. https://luvis.se/software/install-nextcloud-on-synology-dsm-6/
Synology also has Synology Drive which would give you similar options to NextCloud. NextCloud is a little more polished in my opinion but this is quick and easy to get going. You can also use the Synology quickconnect so no need to open ports to access.
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@syko24 said in Large File Sharing:
@Kyle said in Large File Sharing:
@scottalanmiller Have you ever seen NextCloud installed successfully on a Synology?
Came across this while researching solutions. https://luvis.se/software/install-nextcloud-on-synology-dsm-6/
Synology also has Synology Drive which would give you similar options to NextCloud. NextCloud is a little more polished in my opinion but this is quick and easy to get going. You can also use the Synology quickconnect so no need to open ports to access.
The client has it limits but it can work.
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Lucidlink may work. I have not tried it yet, but looks great.
https://www.lucidlink.com/
The files are stored on cloud object storage and shown locally thru a virtual filesystem, accessed on demand with a local cache. This long video shows its capabilities and addresses some questions: https://youtu.be/hTM6b-Tk2jQ
Around 14:18 a movie is copied to the cloud while simultaneously played on another workstation while it is still not completely uploaded (bad wording, I know).The demo obviously uses high speed internet but they say they are optimized for high latency connections. Still, lots of things to check for real world usage.
Edit: Fixed URL
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@dave_c said in Large File Sharing:
Lucidlink may work. I have not tried it yet, but looks great.
https://www.lucidlink.coTheir site isn't loading here
