DS923+Synology drive

[medjack]

DS923+Good afternoon, I want to buy a Synology DS923+ for the office, I have such a question, but will this device withstand 200-250 users on Synology Drive, while they only sit through the web portal, about 50 users use Synology Drive at the same time. Basically, these are not large files up to 100-150 MB in pdf, docx, txt format, there will be a lot of files, I think about 1000.Synology DS923+ Package16 RAM, HDD 2x4 TV Seagate Ironwolf 4TB in Raid 1, SSD 240 GB,Internet 50m/s
Is this configuration suitable, or is something better needed?

 

[Rusty]

Is this configuration suitable, or is something better needed?

That is a great machine and with an SSD/HDD combo and multiple volumes, you will be able to set it up as a fast local storage for sure.

The official specs state "Max. number of concurrent SMB/NFS/AFP/FTP connections: 1,000" or up to 2000 with 8GB of RAM or more, so you will have no issue on that front.

What you have to pay attention to is the network element. With files that are about 100-150MB in size and 50 concurrent connections, the network might potentially be the choke point. You have not stated the status of the local LAN is the NAS will be connected to. Does this mean all users will be remote users?

If so, 50m/s bandwidth is what exactly? 50Mbit/s upload or download, 50MB/s up/down, or what? Speed of the network will directly impact the experience, as the NAS will have no issues with that many users in that configuration.

 

[medjack]

50 Mbit/s, transfer/upload speed of 50 Mbit/s, how much more should be increased so that 50 users can comfortably connect to the synology drive web portal via the Internet at the same time

 

[Rusty]

Well, if it's 50Mbit that will translate to about 6.25MB/s max speed. So a 100MB file transfer will take about 15 minutes each. If you will indeed have that much activity, IMHO anything below 1G u/d will be a problem for that much data transfer.

 

[medjack]

Thank you very much for your reply