Looking for a location to run ownCloud (or similar) with 4TB of storage
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I have a client with approximately 3TB of data on USB drives. Most of this is cold data that is rarely accessed, but it can be needed at any time.
They wish to have it centrally stored and accessible.
If they had an internal VM infrastructure, I would setup ownCloud and be done.
As they have no internal infrastructure at all, only a few desktops and laptop, I would like to host this someplace.
What would be a good place to drop something like this? A colocation space would be too expensive (because I would need to purchase a server), but easily doable.
I am just unsure of the various storage amounts available from places like DO.
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DO doesn't handle storage like this well (yet.) It's Vultr and Amazon that are going to have the best options for you.
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Also check owncloud providers https://owncloud.org/providers/
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Vultr tops out at 1TB, sadly. Just checked. They have the best prices up to that point.
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Can also setup Owcloud server on DO and use S3 as storage rite?
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@Ambarishrh said:
Can also setup Owcloud server on DO and use S3 as storage rite?
That would double my bandwidth on DO though.
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@Ambarishrh said:
Also check owncloud providers https://owncloud.org/providers/
OMG, that one is called "MyBO", I'm going to laugh about that all day!
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Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with leaving it on the USB drive and plugging it in when you need it? Maybe make a second copy on another drive for redundancy. Is low-tech really such a bad idea?
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Might be that no one is physically at the location so "needed at any time" might be problematic.
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@scottalanmiller Depends on who needs it and where they work from.
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@art_of_shred said:
Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with leaving it on the USB drive and plugging it in when you need it? Maybe make a second copy on another drive for redundancy. Is low-tech really such a bad idea?
That is the current answer, but they want improved access.
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How much storage is included with Office365? Just thinking that using Sharepoint and ODfB might be doable?
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@JaredBusch said:
@art_of_shred said:
Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with leaving it on the USB drive and plugging it in when you need it? Maybe make a second copy on another drive for redundancy. Is low-tech really such a bad idea?
That is the current answer, but they want improved access.
Sure, and that's where the cost goes up.
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This is where a Raspberry Pi in a tiny rack mount chassis would be awesome. Someone needs to make a two bay, RAID 1 software RAID, RP Zero based shallow 1U chassis that can do up to 8TB in RAID 1 and has ownCloud installed on it. Could be like $600 after drives were purchased!
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@scottalanmiller said:
This is where a Raspberry Pi in a tiny rack mount chassis would be awesome. Someone needs to make a two bay, RAID 1 software RAID, RP Zero based shallow 1U chassis that can do up to 8TB in RAID 1 and has ownCloud installed on it. Could be like $600 after drives were purchased!
Still need to pay collocation fees. So then need to compare those numbers to say just doing ti on Amazon.
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@art_of_shred said:
@JaredBusch said:
@art_of_shred said:
Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with leaving it on the USB drive and plugging it in when you need it? Maybe make a second copy on another drive for redundancy. Is low-tech really such a bad idea?
That is the current answer, but they want improved access.
Sure, and that's where the cost goes up.
Not arguing that it will cost. Just trying to be efficient in finding the right cost.
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@JaredBusch You don't have a shelf in a closet you could rent out???
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1U Colocation will be, I'm sure, a tiny fraction of the Amazon prices. Colocation for that should be no more than $50/mo. A cloud service is likely to be a few times that.
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@JaredBusch said:
@art_of_shred said:
@JaredBusch said:
@art_of_shred said:
Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with leaving it on the USB drive and plugging it in when you need it? Maybe make a second copy on another drive for redundancy. Is low-tech really such a bad idea?
That is the current answer, but they want improved access.
Sure, and that's where the cost goes up.
Not arguing that it will cost. Just trying to be efficient in finding the right cost.
Sorry. I was just being silly, not opposing anything you said.
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@coliver said:
How much storage is included with Office365? Just thinking that using Sharepoint and ODfB might be doable?
They have had nothing but problems with ODfB continually failing to sync and having to run a repair. Happening about every 60 days. They don't even call me for that anymore.
