I've been a longtime viewer of LTT, up until now I've only built systems for friends and family mostly for gaming. I got this job almost a year ago and since then I've proven my tech experience and built 2 systems for the company.
My boss asked me today to try and find a solution for a backup system since the NAS they're using is getting old, we have about 13tb of use right now with files going back all the way to 2001.
I was thinking about cloud storage but that gets expensive very quickly, so for the past hour I've been trying to find parts online where we could upgrade our hardware and future proof the company a bit. Right now this is what I have:
Rack: 20U Open Rack
Chassis: 2U 8 Bay Chassis
System: i5, 8gb ram, 4x8tb Seastone drives
Switch: 28 port switch
Could anyone please give me advice on how not to screw this up, we need the 28 port switch as we have security cameras that use POE, and about 10 computers in the building, right now we have a 24 port that's almost filled up. I want to do raid 1 so I can have 16tb as a backup and 16tb usable but I'm not sure if that will be enough. We don't need anything crazy for speed, we just need something that will be reliable in case something messes up.
I'm not sure to go with a older xeon processor and motherboard or go with the configuration that I have, I'll throw the OS on an extra drive that we have laying around.