NAS and DropBox

PhillyDee · 13 Jan 2016 at 09:22

I am looking for a storage solution for my Business. I regularly push files between 5 PCs in my unit (I use dropbox to keep everything synced) and a tablet / laptop at home.

Is there a 2 bay NAS out there that will offer redundancy as well as syncing to dropbox? What I find is that sometimes dropbox doesn't always happen instantly, and I can wait 5-10 minutes when sending files to my lasers. So I would much prefer to use the NAS to store the files, and have them replicated using dropbox for external use.

Is this actually possible? Or is that something I would need a microserver for (any good deals out there?)

DIABLO · 13 Jan 2016 at 18:41

I don't think there is any NAS with built in Dropbox Functionality, you could get a Dell PowerEdge T20 for £100 after rebate which would have course do the job. Check the thread in the server section for info.

bledd · 13 Jan 2016 at 18:51

Synology has drop box syncing.

DIABLO · 13 Jan 2016 at 21:00

Well there you go then OP.

PhillyDee · 14 Jan 2016 at 09:14

A choice

. cheers

bledd · 14 Jan 2016 at 09:20

https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS216

or

https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS215j

I'd go for the DS216 as it's newer and quicker.

Use WD Red drives, the default configuration would be SHR in RAID1.

NickTheBiz · 14 Jan 2016 at 10:02

QNAP does dropbox synching too, but I've got a problem with that at present.