Looking into some opinions here... Trying to get a customer of mine AWAY from dropbox, as they're essentially using it as distributed file system between their office locations.
They're building out a new office location which I'm taking care of the network setup and wifi and servers.
Recently went 100% MAC's as their locations (Real Estate).
The idea:
Setup 2015 Mac Mini (8GB, 256GB SSD). and run OSX Server.
Open Directory
All shares, etc.. the works..
Plan was to use Synology DiskStation 5-bay unit. 4-Disk RAID-10 array, 1-hot spare.
Volume1 - to pull down ALL their existing Dropbox data
Volume2 -- be large iSCSI LUN
Map iSCSI LUN to Mac Mini Server. (GlobalSAN iSCSI initiator)
use BOTH Thunderbolt connectors using TB to 1GBE adaptor. Directly connect to Synology NAS (LACP Bond) using IP address. So bypasses switch
Then NIC Card in Mac Mini connect to regular network using regular Data network subnet.
Create all data storage on the attached iSCSI Drive.
Use a regular dropbox or Google Drive account & install on the Mac Mini server. This would then point to the iSCSI Local drive and re-publish the data to dropbox or google drive
NOTE: This would be so another remote office or if needed, a windows client or Linux client access the company files via a dropbox or google drive account.
Right now they have ALL workstations running dropbox.... Dropbox kills CPU & Disk I/O and disk space.