small ofice storage solutions

[redwood]

Hello, 

 

My mother has a small office, most of the time she was the only employee in the office. 

In the past year office has grown and now has more workers as well as more computers. 

 

Nature of work is such that they are working on the same documents. 

Because there is no sharing, they send by email any document they are working on it and it is very clumsy. 

 

What would be the best solution? 

 

Required 

- full sharing, all employees will be opened the same folder 

- Backup, RAID 1 will do? 

- Access outside the home would be great, my mom takes a laptop to meetings That would spare her transfer files before a meeting outside 

 

Funny I was looking for something like Linus posts a video on NAS

 

Thanks !

[wpirobotbuilder]

A basic prebuilt NAS would probably the be the best in terms of feature usage and simplicity. Take your pick from Synology, QNAP, Netgear, etc. Lots of them have web interfaces, all of them have some sort of RAID and file sharing.

 

There is a fireproof NAS from ioSafe, linked here. It does cost more but offers fire and water resistance, as demonstrated in this

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[redwood]

A basic prebuilt NAS would probably the be the best in terms of feature usage and simplicity. Take your pick from Synology, QNAP, Netgear, etc. Lots of them have web interfaces, all of them have some sort of RAID and file sharing.

 

There is a fireproof NAS from ioSafe, linked here. It does cost more but offers fire and water resistance, as demonstrated in this video.

fireproof NAS not required

 

i saw there tons of "basic NAS", how can i choose?

[wpirobotbuilder]

fireproof NAS not required

 

i saw there tons of "basic NAS", how can i choose?

Offices can catch fire too. Losing data in a small office can be a real problem if there aren't offsite backups.

 

Choose your NAS based firstly on how much capacity you need. If you need 4TB of space or less, go for a two-bay NAS. If one NAS from one company has a feature you want, pick that one. I personally recommend Synology because they have excellent customer and technical support, plus their software is really good, but you could basically pick one at random and get a good solution.

 

If you need more than 4TB of space you'll need a NAS with more than 2 bays, at which point things get more complicated. How much storage space does your mother need?

[redwood]

Offices can catch fire too. Losing data in a small office can be a real problem if there aren't offsite backups.

 

Choose your NAS based firstly on how much capacity you need. If you need 4TB of space or less, go for a two-bay NAS. If one NAS from one company has a feature you want, pick that one. I personally recommend Synology because they have excellent customer and technical support, plus their software is really good, but you could basically pick one at random and get a good solution.

 

If you need more than 4TB of space you'll need a NAS with more than 2 bays, at which point things get more complicated. How much storage space does your mother need?

U right, i will consider that..

 

1TB is too much, but lets go with 2TB

[wpirobotbuilder]

U right, i will consider that..

 

1TB is too much, but lets go with 2TB

You can get away with a 2-bay NAS then. Here is one from Synology which has RAID 1 and web management, plus file access over the internet.

[redwood]

You can get away with a 2-bay NAS then. Here is one from Synology which has RAID 1 and web management, plus file access over the internet.

Thanks

 

I`d need learn about it before buying one. 

[Ahnzh]

You can get away with a 2-bay NAS then. Here is one from Synology which has RAID 1 and web management, plus file access over the internet.

 

Thanks

 

I`d need learn about it before buying one. 

 

I would opt for the DS214 instead of the DS214se though. You get far better write speeds out of it but most importantly you will be using more features than just the share - at least from my experience. My mother has got a small accountancy firm with 4 workers so I know exactly what I talk about. We started with a QNAP. Then we expanded it's usage to remote access and then for network services (DHCP, DNS). With consideration of VoIP I started building a unified communication solution with a Faxes and voicemail sent via email. So we added an email server as well and add RAM since the old amount wasn't enough any more. Now we had to print out faxes, to avoid that we went for a paperless office. So we got a document scanner and got Lucion's File Center software. It's available for a REASONABLE price (200$) instead of 2000+$ and just perfect for offices smaller than 10 people and integrates well into NAS solutions. With all the backups and accesses our old NAS couldn't handle the work any more.