A Mirror RAID NAS Box that can handle 10 Users, 1GB files ish each

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moulderhere

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I have been asked by an Architect firm to build a NAS box for their files. Averaging file is 40MB but they use drawing files which are 1GB on average.

Is there any good NAS box that do mirror raid yet can handle the throughput of multiple people connecting at once?

Thx
 
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10 GB (10 users X 1GB a piece) is nothing. A PC (or server) with a shared folder is all you really need. Have this folder replicate (across the network) to another machine for a local backup, and copy the folder to a USB every week, and take it home for an off-site copy.
 
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I haven't got a switch yet I'm stil designing the hardware. I was thinking of the situation where 10 people would connect to my nas and they'd be opening 1gb files each, working on the file then saving and closing. What would be needed.

Or is it just better to have a 10GB Ethernet card to a 10GB switch down to 1GB to each pc
 
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I would just get a 1GB switch. The users rarely will all be downloading at exactly the same time, and even if they did, it can handle 10 users. I'm sure if they all connected at exactly the same time, they might notice the network being slow, but for 10 users, 1GB connection is fine. You have to remember that you probably have other thing on the same network - Internet traffic, E-mail, Backups maybe.
 
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