Building web server and NAS in one - Advice Needed

[plik]

I'd like to build a modest server using Ubuntu. It will be in my office to act as a development server for my web projects. I'd like it to have a very large storage capacity (16 - 20 TB) for the other people in my office to have access to as a shared drive.

My main question: I need a not-too-expensive solution for hardware that will handle 16 - 20 TB.

Why I need what I need:
- We want to centralize files between employees in our office
- Our files are very large
- We want multiple back-ups (so this server would be backed up via Google Drive).
- If there was a NAS solution that could sync to a Google Drive account, then that would work (and then we would separately use a normal web server instead of a 20 TB web server).

Thoughts?

 

[TyrOd]

I'd like to build a modest server using Ubuntu. It will be in my office to act as a development server for my web projects. I'd like it to have a very large storage capacity (16 - 20 TB) for the other people in my office to have access to as a shared drive.

My main question: I need a not-too-expensive solution for hardware that will handle 16 - 20 TB.

Why I need what I need:
- We want to centralize files between employees in our office
- Our files are very large
- We want multiple back-ups (so this server would be backed up via Google Drive).
- If there was a NAS solution that could sync to a Google Drive account, then that would work (and then we would separately use a normal web server instead of a 20 TB web server).

Thoughts?

You want to back up 20Tb to google drive? that's not going to happen. Google drive is a free consumer cloud storage platform. You can't back-up 20TB to it. You need a SMB/Enterprise grade cloud backup.

Also, in terms of a 'not too expensive" 20TB NAS, we really need to know your budget, because you can get a dirt cheap 4 bay NAS and put 4 X 5TB consumer drives in it for around $1500 if you wanted, but that would be a horrible choice for reliability and uptime.

 

[plik]

TyrOd, I appreciate your response, but ... two things:

1) 20 TB isn't even the largest plan available with Google Drive

2) $1,500 would get a very good NAS product (http://www.cnet.com/topics/storage/best-storage-drives/network-attached-storage/)

 

[TyrOd]

TyrOd, I appreciate your response, but ... two things:

1) 20 TB isn't even the largest plan available with Google Drive

2) $1,500 would get a very good NAS product (http://www.cnet.com/topics/storage/best-storage-drives/network-attached-storage/)

First I've heard of google drive for business offering more than 16TB.

Also it's like $1500+ a month so....

I was including the cost of the drives in that $1500 range.

The cost of the diskless NAS system doesn't tell you much about the TCO. ~$1500 is the bare minimum for what you're trying to accomplish and that is assuming NO redundancy and NO spares which is obviously a bad idea regardless.

My recommendation is 10X 3TB Enterprise Drives in RAID6 with 2 spares., so you'll need a 12 bay NAS.

Also, where is your 2nd backup going to be? Are you going to be using this system for back-up or read-only access to your employees with their local machines as primary storage?

 

[plik]

Google Drive
- 20 TB is $199/mo
- 30 TB is $299/mo

 

[TyrOd]

Google Drive
- 20 TB is $199/mo
- 30 TB is $299/mo

That's for Personal use. Business services are 10x that.