Hi guys, hopefully this is the right section, it was a coin toss between here and storage!
I work in a school, as a Media teacher to be precise. As we have a couple of dozen students who shoot and upload footage and photos in RAW our storage needs very much outstrip the facilities provided to us by the school. As a solution the school provided us with an ethernet 2tb HDD which provides enough capacity but obviously offers no failure protection, user management or backup system, (every student can access the entire drive, i'm just waiting for one to hit delete!). We also have the issue that when uploading uncompressed 1080i footage it completely brings the drive to a standstill when other students need to access it too.
This has led me to suggest purchasing a NAS for ourselves as my limited knowledge leads me to believe that it will give us better data security and better management of users. A 4-drive NAS would hopefully offer us much better speed to due to being able to use RAID.
In terms of budget, we are relatively limited due to being, well, a school. We figured we could afford up to roughly £600. This led me to the below NAS:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-012-QN&groupid=46&catid=2125&subcat=
This plus 4 1tb drives would bring us roughly in line with the budget we've laid out. Will this offer what we need? Speed is priority, but the ability to protect folders with user accounts, data security and ideally (but as the lowest priority) a means of backing up the data incase of accidental deletions is what we need.
Am i right in thinkin Raid-5 would be the best thing to run it in with 4 drives?
Would this be a step in the right direction from a single ethernet hard drive, or am i barking up the wrong tree? Should i be looking into something else?
I work in a school, as a Media teacher to be precise. As we have a couple of dozen students who shoot and upload footage and photos in RAW our storage needs very much outstrip the facilities provided to us by the school. As a solution the school provided us with an ethernet 2tb HDD which provides enough capacity but obviously offers no failure protection, user management or backup system, (every student can access the entire drive, i'm just waiting for one to hit delete!). We also have the issue that when uploading uncompressed 1080i footage it completely brings the drive to a standstill when other students need to access it too.
This has led me to suggest purchasing a NAS for ourselves as my limited knowledge leads me to believe that it will give us better data security and better management of users. A 4-drive NAS would hopefully offer us much better speed to due to being able to use RAID.
In terms of budget, we are relatively limited due to being, well, a school. We figured we could afford up to roughly £600. This led me to the below NAS:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-012-QN&groupid=46&catid=2125&subcat=
This plus 4 1tb drives would bring us roughly in line with the budget we've laid out. Will this offer what we need? Speed is priority, but the ability to protect folders with user accounts, data security and ideally (but as the lowest priority) a means of backing up the data incase of accidental deletions is what we need.
Am i right in thinkin Raid-5 would be the best thing to run it in with 4 drives?
Would this be a step in the right direction from a single ethernet hard drive, or am i barking up the wrong tree? Should i be looking into something else?
