Hey Guys

new arround here,
Already did alot of reading and learned alot.

I have a customer who asked my help.
they are a SMB marketing, creative agency and deal with lots of designer files. (big graphic files)

current setup:
They have arround 25 employees
Mixed environment (80% mac , 20% windows)
They use dropbox for filesharing and its over 4 TB of data. (displayed in the admin console)

they experienced alot of growth the last 12 months.
the storage went up with 1TB the last 6 monts

the dropbox isn't sufficient enought (slow - downloading,uploadig - internet outage)

what has been proposed :
A windows AD server (only for authentication)
6TB usable storage
Synology nas for storage - 4 bays - 4TB disks
backup will be to another location via rsync over VPN

i'm not really convinced about it.
what i think:
use the windows server as storage
the synology as internal backup

also not sure about the drive size and count (for future growth)

what do you guys think?
thx!

@scottalanmiller said in Storage question:

First: Welcome to MangoLassi. Or to posting, at least It's been a year since your last post.

Thx!
yeah, i know; its been while

@DustinB3403 said in Storage question:

Why not a non-terrestrial based backup internet service and cloud storage that operates faster?

whats terrestrial based backup ?

@scottalanmiller said in Storage question:

@elegast said in Storage question:

what has been proposed :
A windows AD server (only for authentication)
6TB usable storage
Synology nas for storage - 4 bays - 4TB disks

Why Windows AD?

First... why AD at all? Is that really a good way to go? It might be, but let's start with determining if that has value.
Second... why Windows AD?

AD was Demanded by the CTO...
i thought it was good to use the windows server as file server and back it up to the synology

we will go for an expandable synology rs station.
if the need is there we can put in an extra chassis. 4x4 TB in raid10

will suggest an extra locallly backup target.

thanks for the advice.