ohio_grad_06
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If this question has been posted prior, then my apologies. I used to be more active on here, but not as much lately.
Anyway, at work, for one of our divisions, we purchased a Dell Poweredge R540 system.
Specs
Xeon Silver 4114 CPU(20 core 2.2ghz)
32gb ram
2 240gb ssd in Raid 1 as a boot drive
6 8 tb drives in Raid 6 for data storage for a total of about 30tb. However, it has I think 4 extra bays so that we can expand that.
We are looking for a backup solution. At first, I thought they would use a cloud based solution, but it sounds like they prefer something along the lines of a NAS. They paid about 6k for the server itself, and we bought Server 2016 Standard Edition seperately for it. We are a church organization and have volume licenses set up, so it was a little cheaper to get the OS seperately.
Anyhow, this system is joined the our domain with a fixed IP. Not running much really, I think there are a couple of programs that will be loaded, but it won't be doing anything in the way of being a domain controller, WSUS, etc. For the most part it will be a file server for this particular division in our building.
Did a quick search in here, and Synology seems to come up as a decent brand. I know some things, but you guys know more on this stuff than I do.
That said, I was looking, and found this NAS.
https://www.cdw.com/product/Synology-Disk-Station-DS1817-NAS-server-0-GB/4698225?pfm=srh
Maybe fill it with these drives.
https://www.cdw.com/product/WD-Red-...ZX-hard-drive-8-TB-SATA-6Gb-s/4037705?pfm=srh
Raid calculator says at Raid 6 I'd have about 48tb of storage.
Currently, they have the 6 8tb drives in Raid 6. So the real size of the data store is about 30tb for now. The idea is we will probably start out with the NAS, and then maybe add another NAS later as they grow. They do a lot of their own media production in the way of audio, books, video, etc etc etc. They said before they may at some point need 100tb. But when we looked at pricing, the first solutions a couple of years ago were too expensive, so we are starting a bit smaller with something that can expand.
Also, I would be interested to know what you all recommend for a good software. In the past we've used products like Windows Server backup, and Cobian backup. I know these aren't the best. Bang for the buck will be what is desireed by the powers that be. I know in the past AOMEI backupper seemed ok, and has a technician edition for 799 which would allow for 1 technician and unlimited systems. That seems like a good deal, but there is probably better out there.
So reaching out to the experts here.
If it makes a difference, the internet speed here is 250mb fiber from windstream.
Anyway, at work, for one of our divisions, we purchased a Dell Poweredge R540 system.
Specs
Xeon Silver 4114 CPU(20 core 2.2ghz)
32gb ram
2 240gb ssd in Raid 1 as a boot drive
6 8 tb drives in Raid 6 for data storage for a total of about 30tb. However, it has I think 4 extra bays so that we can expand that.
We are looking for a backup solution. At first, I thought they would use a cloud based solution, but it sounds like they prefer something along the lines of a NAS. They paid about 6k for the server itself, and we bought Server 2016 Standard Edition seperately for it. We are a church organization and have volume licenses set up, so it was a little cheaper to get the OS seperately.
Anyhow, this system is joined the our domain with a fixed IP. Not running much really, I think there are a couple of programs that will be loaded, but it won't be doing anything in the way of being a domain controller, WSUS, etc. For the most part it will be a file server for this particular division in our building.
Did a quick search in here, and Synology seems to come up as a decent brand. I know some things, but you guys know more on this stuff than I do.
That said, I was looking, and found this NAS.
https://www.cdw.com/product/Synology-Disk-Station-DS1817-NAS-server-0-GB/4698225?pfm=srh
Maybe fill it with these drives.
https://www.cdw.com/product/WD-Red-...ZX-hard-drive-8-TB-SATA-6Gb-s/4037705?pfm=srh
Raid calculator says at Raid 6 I'd have about 48tb of storage.
Currently, they have the 6 8tb drives in Raid 6. So the real size of the data store is about 30tb for now. The idea is we will probably start out with the NAS, and then maybe add another NAS later as they grow. They do a lot of their own media production in the way of audio, books, video, etc etc etc. They said before they may at some point need 100tb. But when we looked at pricing, the first solutions a couple of years ago were too expensive, so we are starting a bit smaller with something that can expand.
Also, I would be interested to know what you all recommend for a good software. In the past we've used products like Windows Server backup, and Cobian backup. I know these aren't the best. Bang for the buck will be what is desireed by the powers that be. I know in the past AOMEI backupper seemed ok, and has a technician edition for 799 which would allow for 1 technician and unlimited systems. That seems like a good deal, but there is probably better out there.
So reaching out to the experts here.
If it makes a difference, the internet speed here is 250mb fiber from windstream.
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