thatguy435
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Hello all,
I have a small network that can vary between 4 and 15 users on any given day, and needs about 1.5-2.5TB of data stored, depending on the progress of a given project at the time, and slowly growing over time. According to most of the NAS reviews, the throughput on most of the prebuilt NAS boxes is not really up to the kind of load that this will get on a heavy use day - I think I am going to end up building a custom one, since it seems to be a heck of a lot cheaper and much more expandable.
Given that, I've got a build planned with a 45W A64 x2, 2gb RAM, 4x 750gb HDDs in RAID5 (to start, and yes I know it's not backup - I'm looking for extremely large contiguous multi-user data). However, many of my users are not tech savvy.
Are there any decent options that have both anonymous access as well as user based on a simple GUI, web based? I have thought about just mapping drives on windows / NFS shares on linux machines, but some of my users on a given day are transient and I'd like a simple way to let them have access without having to babysit their computers.
Thanks!
I have a small network that can vary between 4 and 15 users on any given day, and needs about 1.5-2.5TB of data stored, depending on the progress of a given project at the time, and slowly growing over time. According to most of the NAS reviews, the throughput on most of the prebuilt NAS boxes is not really up to the kind of load that this will get on a heavy use day - I think I am going to end up building a custom one, since it seems to be a heck of a lot cheaper and much more expandable.
Given that, I've got a build planned with a 45W A64 x2, 2gb RAM, 4x 750gb HDDs in RAID5 (to start, and yes I know it's not backup - I'm looking for extremely large contiguous multi-user data). However, many of my users are not tech savvy.
Are there any decent options that have both anonymous access as well as user based on a simple GUI, web based? I have thought about just mapping drives on windows / NFS shares on linux machines, but some of my users on a given day are transient and I'd like a simple way to let them have access without having to babysit their computers.
Thanks!