Looking for a multi drive enclosure for backup of a NAS system.

[mikeys4]

Hello,

I'm tasked with researching a (unique?) backup solution for a small company. We work with a lot of video.

The goal, in short, is a portable and offsite backup of our 12-terabyte NAS system.

To preface: I'll be doing the research and assembly for this project, and using it as well. I am pretty tech savvy--have built my own PCs before.

There are a few essentials that I'm looking at:

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  ■ Cheap. It's competing with AWS Glacier for price -- $0.01/GB/mo is around $60 per month for us, over a couple years that approaches $1200. I suspect that it can be done for much cheaper than that ($100-200 plus the cost of drives), and with no ongoing costs. AWS Glacier is also slow.
  ■ Portable. We will store this offsite, drive it to the office, plug it in, and clone our NAS once every 1-3 months. Ideally, one person could carry it in and out of the office without trouble.
  ■ 4 or 5+ drive capacity. Currently we are using 5/12 terabytes of storage, and with everyone going high def, we'll want something that is at least 12 terabytes. So 4x3tb drives or more.
  ■ Bare-bones. I'm not too concerned with all the features that expensive NAS systems offer -- speed, lifetime read/writes, security, remote management, customer support, etc. Willing to compromise greatly on cost here.

I was thinking of just building a very cheap microATX tower and filling it with as many 3tb hard drives as I can. But it seems like most small form factor PC cases forgo 3.5" slots first and foremost. There has to be a dedicated enclosure for multiple drives that's cheap and reliable.

Thank you for your help. If this is in the wrong section, I apologize. I have never posted here before.

 

[FireWire2]

You can use this BOX
http://www.datoptic.com/ec/esata-usb3-0-hardware-raid-support-mac-windows-freebsd-linux-409.html

Or
http://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-22-122-164

connect to one of the station or direct to your NAS via eSATA or USB3.0/2.0, Run back up then remove the HDD to off site

Since the RAID metadata stays with HDD, you can have the data access anywhere with similar box

 

[TyrOd]

Lol AWS glacier has dedoop + 4 times replication in the datacenter plus geographic redundancy, soo... Comparing it to the reliability of carrying around a bunch of drives in kind of silly.

The fact that you're bringing this thing into the office AND taking it off-site intermittently means you're actually INCREASING the chance of failure over a static on site backup or off-site backup.

You need TWO 4 X 4TB devices to Rotate off-site and that means the drives themselves will cost $1200.