02-28-2020, 03:37 PM
Rob, wow, great website (nascompares.com) and YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFyP17HoU-vpxhIpGXnXx2g). Thank you!
We are an SMB with a small IT budget. We have an older Windows 2003 "File and Print" server. It's out of support, and hardware-wise, on it's last legs.
Focusing on Backup & Disaster Recovery (BDR), in our efforts to find an affordable (for us) solution, we stumbled on Synology DS1018+ vs QNAP TS-673-8G-US. (6 bays for future growth, 4 x 4TB drives, RAID-6). We are thinking of getting two of these NASs: one for on-premise, one for offsite.
Note: we will not be using the extra functionality, eg- surveillance or media server. Our focus is BDR, file server and cloud accessibility
Goals - Can these NASs meets these needs?
1) For backups -- Backup data from a Windows 2003 server to NAS, guessing via SMB shares (first-party or third-party app is fine)
2) For BDR -- Synchronize data from one on-premise appliance to another offsite appliance)
3) For file server -- if Windows 2003 server does have a hardware failure and dies, could we use the NAS as a replacement file server on our Windows network (via LDAP or Active Directory integration)? With the added possibility that I could remap Windows users drive letters that point to shares on Windows 2003 to "shares" on the QNAP.
4) Now that users are working from home because of COVID-19, offer users the ability to access the NAS (with all of our company's Windows-based data) from a cloud portal.
Thank you, KJS, Sys Admin
We are an SMB with a small IT budget. We have an older Windows 2003 "File and Print" server. It's out of support, and hardware-wise, on it's last legs.
Focusing on Backup & Disaster Recovery (BDR), in our efforts to find an affordable (for us) solution, we stumbled on Synology DS1018+ vs QNAP TS-673-8G-US. (6 bays for future growth, 4 x 4TB drives, RAID-6). We are thinking of getting two of these NASs: one for on-premise, one for offsite.
Note: we will not be using the extra functionality, eg- surveillance or media server. Our focus is BDR, file server and cloud accessibility
Goals - Can these NASs meets these needs?
1) For backups -- Backup data from a Windows 2003 server to NAS, guessing via SMB shares (first-party or third-party app is fine)
2) For BDR -- Synchronize data from one on-premise appliance to another offsite appliance)
3) For file server -- if Windows 2003 server does have a hardware failure and dies, could we use the NAS as a replacement file server on our Windows network (via LDAP or Active Directory integration)? With the added possibility that I could remap Windows users drive letters that point to shares on Windows 2003 to "shares" on the QNAP.
4) Now that users are working from home because of COVID-19, offer users the ability to access the NAS (with all of our company's Windows-based data) from a cloud portal.
Thank you, KJS, Sys Admin