Need advice NAS acquisition advice for jeyare: enterprise, 10

[jeyare]

Usage type: enterprise

Preferred form factor DS (DiskStation)

Number of bays: 2-bays

Do you have any existing drives that you plan on using? Yes

Prefered RAID array setup for this NAS: RAID 10

This NAS will be used for: backup, multimedia, business (virtual machines, mail, office, etc.), surveillance, utilities (docker, VPN, reverse proxy, web hosting, etc.), downloads (torrents, USENET, WebDAV, FTP, etc.)

Max budget for this setup: 10

Number of users that will utilize this NAS: (DID NOT ANSWER QUESTION)

Any preferred network connectivity? 10G

Where will this NAS be used: LAN and over the Internet

Any special network requirements: LAG, failover, 10G

Special cloud provider connectivity: (DID NOT ANSWER QUESTION)

Additional information:
just a check of the outcome

I have some advice to change of the flow:
- you can delete the enterprise and medium biz segment - people from this area no need such basic flow. They are looking for an experiences of specific features. E.g. reliability of Snapshot/Replica procedure or Dedup ratio, ...
- unskilled newbie will chose 10G, because he doesn’t have a clue what it does mean for his entire architecture
- what about a simple XLS attachment with few inputs, to calculate total volume with 5y outlook (as is and to be), then split into RAID levels (recommended by usage) = then you can suggest a single disk volume = and number of bays as last mile?

 

[Rusty]

Tnx for the input, we will take it into consideration.

 

[jeyare]

I can prepare som example for a sharing

 

[jeyare]

So what about this one?

XLS with few questions - helpful for segment of newbies.

There is possible create a segmentation for:
- office files
- pictures
- videos
- docker images and containers
- Drive environment with number of versions

For special segment as:
- photographers with more than 5 photos per month
- video editors is necessary to prepare different one
I have few of them from projects created in last 5y. But there isn't more than 50% similarity (different workflow setup, different purposes, ...). It's hart to prepare a single template.

Btw:
this template can take into consideration few newbies mistakes
- clearly answer how many bay they need in the NAS
- what will be data increment in short term
- ...