Deverill Posted August 4, 2006 Posted August 4, 2006 Hi gang, I need to draw on some of your experience if you have it in this area. My church and its daycare have 3 "office" type computers with documents, kid databases, photos, financial info, etc. Each computer is heavy storage and light on traffic. We also have a laptop that runs the synth via midi files, which is light on storage. We have a computer in the soundbooth that runs all the multimedia and recorded sermons- pretty storage intensive. We have a few others in the classrooms which are very lightweight. In all we have about, and I'm guessing, 250Gb actively and need for more fairly soon. Our entire building is on wireless. What I'd like to see about is getting a network solution as a fileserver. Cost is important but not majorly - we spend what we need to in order to do what we do and get the money as we need it. We want to get something easy to use and security is a must!!! We have records on our daycare children so it has to have good security that can be assigned to a file/folder basis. We are running XP everywhere. Does anyone have experience with something besides Snap servers (snapsolutions.com)? I have only slight knowledge about them an no others. I have considered a monster computer on Linux running as a server, but I'd rather do a network application if possible. Quote
stevevan Posted August 4, 2006 Posted August 4, 2006 A number of years ago, my military unit asked me to set up something along those lines. I took the easy way and set up a server with RAID storage and the largest SCSI HD's available at the time. We were wired, but it worked and it went in rather quickly. We looked at other solutions, but decided that this would be the easiest, cheapest, and quickest to do what we wanted to do. Just my $.02. Quote
stevevan Posted August 4, 2006 Posted August 4, 2006 What about something along the lines of what boxturt described here? Quote
Madmanmcp Posted August 5, 2006 Posted August 5, 2006 There are several solutions out there and it just depends on what you decide on doing. There are Network File servers in many flavors both cheap and expensive. The cheapest would probably be a Raid solution, but this involves both work and knowledge of the OS and technology and a few spare parts. The more expensive would be the pre-configured disk, File Servers, and you just plug them in and there they are. Lots of research, godd luck in your quest and decision. Quote
Deverill Posted August 10, 2006 Author Posted August 10, 2006 Sorry for the delay - I've been on a bit of down time lately. Thanks for the ideas. I'm going to check with our internet department at work, Steve, because they just installed a Buffalo Link for backups so I can pick their brains. I'll do a little looking around - maybe end up with a linux server Quote
stevevan Posted August 10, 2006 Posted August 10, 2006 I'll do a little looking around - maybe end up with a linux server And what's wrong with that? Quote
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