Need an advice on small office storage

[Sarunce]

Hello

 

I'm new to this forum but maybe you could help me with a problem I have. 

 

My small business is expanding and I would like to get local storage for my files and security camera feed. Maybe some one can help me with some suggestions what should I get to get this accomplished? 

 

Many thanks in advance 

Sarunce

[19_blackie_73]

you could use some sort of prebuilt nas if you don't have much experience with such stuff, but I don't have any recommendations for you. How big are you're storage needs for your business?

[NMS]

Call Linus and ask for Storinator.

[Sarunce]

Well I would say about 10tb for start ant then leave room for expanding

[leadeater]

QNAP and Synology are good options to look at.

[dalekphalm]

On 2018-08-16 at 4:39 AM, Sarunce said:

Well I would say about 10tb for start ant then leave room for expanding

I agree with @leadeater‘s suggestions - both QNAP and Synology make great equipment. 

 

Both will have apps that can record/store camera feeds. 

 

In terms of storage amount, you just need to decide between total number of drives vs size of drives. 

 

If you want room for expansion, you should get a larger NAS and leave empty bays. Warning though - the larger bay NAS appliances start to get pricey pretty quick. 2-bay and 4-bay units typically are the best bang for the buck, but don’t leave much room for expansion. 

 

Make sure whatever setup you buy, there’s some sort of drive redundancy (Eg:

raid1 or raid5, but not raid0). 

 

Lastly, make damn sure you’re backing up your files - raid is NOT a backup. Backup anything you cannot afford to lose. 

 

The backup itself can be one of any number of solutions, such as to an external HDD, to another NAS, to cloud storage, etc. 

On 2018-08-16 at 5:40 AM, leadeater said:

QNAP and Synology are good options to look at.