Server NAS For work

[CosmicSlothh]

I remember in a video LMG setup a nas with their office that would allow them to download games and such from their server instead of steam if it had already been downloaded prior. I wanted to re-purpose that for a work setting. At my job we work with very large file sizes and sync everything through dropbox. Our internet is fairly slow though so at times, especially under load everything tends to take a while to upload and download. Is their a way to setup a NAS and have the in office computers upload to that and have the NAS handle the upload and sync to the cloud. We still need the cloud portion as we do have people that need to access it from outside the office and also need the redundancy that comes with cloud based solutions. Essentially I want to keep the dropbox system we have, but if connected to the in office network, the NAS would take priority. 

[SupaKomputa]

In PC create network drive to NAS.

In NAS install dropbox app to autosync from the shared folder.

[FloRolf]

15 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

In PC create network drive to NAS.

In NAS install dropbox app to autosync from the shared folder.

Pretty much that. 

 

How much work do you want to put in it, how much storage do you need, how many people access the NAS and what kind of speeds do you want/need for your files? 

 

You can get easy and simple solutions like a Synology box. They come in a huge variety, just check their configurator on their website. 

https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/nas_selector

 

 

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[CosmicSlothh]

1 hour ago, FloRolf said:

Pretty much that. 

 

How much work do you want to put in it, how much storage do you need, how many people access the NAS and what kind of speeds do you want/need for your files? 

 

You can get easy and simple solutions like a Synology box. They come in a huge variety, just check their configurator on their website. 

https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/nas_selector

 

 

Oh and welcome to the forum! 

Please make sure you use the "Quote" function or tag people your respond to @CosmicSlothh so they can see you've replied. 

 

Currently we have 6 people accessing the dropbox but we are growing and our current dropbox size is over 20TB