New Server for the office
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@Tim_G said in New Server for the office:
@scottalanmiller said in New Server for the office:
@coliver said in New Server for the office:
I would say check out SuperMicro and xByte. They have loads of options available and the support to go along with it.
Same here. If I am buying servers these days, I pretty much only look at @ryan-from-xbyte xByte for Dell equipment or SuperMicro in markets where getting Dell is difficult (Canada!!) or when we need form factors that Dell does not provide. These are our two go to vendors.
Hmm, why xByte instead of going through a Dell rep? Pros / Cons?
Lower cost. Same support. So you either save money or you can get more for the money.
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Oh and xByte doesn't have their reps quit every two weeks like the Dell people do. You can always reach the people that you need.
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For the workload as you have specified, I would totally go with a Synology and be done.
Buy a second one and stick it in the main office and use it as a backup target for he first. Or stick the second one in a colo. Your daily change rate seem small so the offsite replication should be no big deal.
I would not even bother with a server and virtualization and all that overhead (not that it is a lot).
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This with 4 x 3TB drives gives you 6TB of space.
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/RS815+ -
Then you can setup something on the one in the colo to backup to some cloud source to get a detached backup of the data. Since the two Synology will be sync and not backup.
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@JaredBusch said in New Server for the office:
This with 4 x 3TB drives gives you 6TB of space.
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/RS815+Getting a quote on it now... Thanks!
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@bigbear said in New Server for the office:
@JaredBusch said in New Server for the office:
This with 4 x 3TB drives gives you 6TB of space.
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/RS815+Getting a quote on it now... Thanks!
there may be more cost effective models. that was just the first one on the page when I went to get a link for an example.
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@JaredBusch I am curious as to whether I could stick a second unit at a branch office and replicate say 500GB of data with that office. Would it require a VPN or do they have any kind of sync over https?
Or is it the sync I have seen in QNAP. The GUI looks really cool and it looks like exactly what we need..
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@bigbear said in New Server for the office:
@JaredBusch I am curious as to whether I could stick a second unit at a branch office and replicate say 500GB of data with that office. Would it require a VPN or do they have any kind of sync over https?
Or is it the sync I have seen in QNAP. The GUI looks really cool and it looks like exactly what we need..
Looks like I even have one of those models..
I have never used the built in sync. I use them only as a backup target on site. But it has rsync built in.
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@bigbear A diskless 2-bay costs $659.99. You can find pricing on our website.
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@JaredBusch Do you have the disc manager desktop?
These are incredibly cheap!
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@Brett-at-ioSafe could you recommend a model similar to the Synology? Would love to check that out too.
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@bigbear said in New Server for the office:
@JaredBusch I am curious as to whether I could stick a second unit at a branch office and replicate say 500GB of data with that office. Would it require a VPN or do they have any kind of sync over https?
Or is it the sync I have seen in QNAP. The GUI looks really cool and it looks like exactly what we need..
Basically all NAS use Rsync under the hood and Rsync works directly on SSH.
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@scottalanmiller Has it gotten any better for 2 way sync?
On the website they show dropbox integration. That would be significant.
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@bigbear All our NAS are similar to Synology as they all run Synology's operating system
What capacity to do you need? The 216 provides up to 16TB of raw capacity while the 1515+ provides up to 120TB (when used in conjunction with expansion chassis).. -
@bigbear said in New Server for the office:
@scottalanmiller Has it gotten any better for 2 way sync?
No one really does two way sync. Rsync doesn't even attempt two way.
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@scottalanmiller I wonder if the dropbox integration could sync a large folder between two synology devices.
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@bigbear said in New Server for the office:
@scottalanmiller I wonder if the dropbox integration could sync a large folder between two synology devices.
sure, but why? the devices can do it themselves.
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@JaredBusch per @scottalanmiller no one does two way sync.
Is it a cloud feature of synology?
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@scottalanmiller said in New Server for the office:
@bigbear said in New Server for the office:
@scottalanmiller Has it gotten any better for 2 way sync?
No one really does two way sync. Rsync doesn't even attempt two way.
And in this instance, you do not want two way sync. Why would even go there? The one in colo or the main office is supposed to be a copy only. You don't want dual masters. That is just a mess waiting to happen. You want a master, a slave, and a backup.
I recommend making the backup off the slave just because it was suggested to be in a colo with no bandwidth concerns.
