Management of NAS for SOHO?

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Have a customer with a small home office that has unreliable internet access. Today there is an old fileserver, but it's completely unmanaged and we have no access into the network.

If we would move the files to a small NAS, how should we manage it?

Can we have it setup to "self manage" by auto installing updates and sending email notifications to us when it has problems? What do you recommend?

gjacobse

@Pete-S

First question

How much space is used and expected for growth?

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@gjacobse said in Management of NAS for SOHO?:

@Pete-S

First question

How much space is used and expected for growth?

I believe the old server has 4TB of usable storage and I think it's full.
So let's assume we need 8TB total.

dbeato

@Pete-S It depends on the NAS, what NAS would you use?

You can use Synology with their Management online
https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/help/DSM/AdminCenter/connection_quickconnect?version=7

You can do the auto update as well.

gjacobse

@dbeato said in Management of NAS for SOHO?:

@Pete-S It depends on the NAS, what NAS would you use?

You can use Synology with their Management online
https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/help/DSM/AdminCenter/connection_quickconnect?version=7

You can do the auto update as well.

Synology or ReadyNAS,.. I have a ReadyNAS 4 bay that has been running for my personal use for a good bit now - It'll handle quite a bit more TB than the 2TB drives it has in it... so either should be good option.

I configured my ReadyNAS to notify on backup, and power loss - so there is a decent subset of tools built in.

scottalanmiller

You could also remote to the NAS via another machine on the network. We often do that. Depends on what the customer has. Or expose a web interface to a jump box.

krzykat

I really like Synology for this. Plus you get extra little benefits like complete backups of workstations, and then you can backup your critical synology folders to any cloud platform you like including another dedicated Synology for backups.

scottalanmiller

@krzykat said in Management of NAS for SOHO?:

I really like Synology for this. Plus you get extra little benefits like complete backups of workstations, and then you can backup your critical synology folders to any cloud platform you like including another dedicated Synology for backups.

We like to use the built in B2 integration. Really nice.