Small Commercial NAS vs. Consumer Desktop Whitebox Fileserver
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Especially as new tape technology is always being introduced.
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@mlnews said:
Data is accessed via API. So you would need a tool for accessing it. This is enterprise cloud storage, not an SMB tool.
Cloudberry is a popular tool for this, and the pro version is pretty cheap for the functionality it provides.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Products I would use for a scenario like this include and ARE limited to:
- Synology and/or IOSafe two bay NAS enclosure (paging @Brett-at-ioSafe )
- Netgear ReadyNAS two bay NAS enclosure
Both RAID 1, both business class, both flexible, powerful and cheap. Literally nothing else I would look at or consider.
Thanks, Scott!
@DustinB3403: I'm not sure that our solutions - which are fireproof/waterproof hard drives and NAS - would be the best option in this scenario but, if you have any questions, feel free to ask.
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I think that something along the lines of the IOSafe is best. Simple, matches how things worked before and is very reliable.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Maybe I can get management to see that renting storage from Amazon S3 is way more viable.
Adds a lot of complication, though.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Of these two options, which would be better:
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Purchase a 2 bay external LaCie
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Build a OBR10 Desktop file server using consumer desktop parts.
The only limitation is the pricing has to be near identical.
For a two-disk enclosures (and two disk only!) you go for Netgear and Synology. They have smart software inside you don't need to spend time on tuning, tons of integration and MOST IMPORTANT their enclosures don't eat much of power. Anything you build yourself with a desktop is going to suck way more watts from your power socket
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Those little Atom processors that they tend to use (I miss the Sparc32 days, it was just more interesting) use very little electrical power and produce very little heat and tend to last for forever. Pretty much unbeatable.
