The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CodeCreation on 2024-06-27 17:04:08.
howdy, keeping a long story short and apologies if this is the wrong subreddit, Im a surveyor who works in a department that rotates crews. Due to our high number of datasets (drone based, lidar etc) we are getting a server computer that will help render and process that data. It is linux based and will be running ubuntu. We have also been told by our company's IT team that our department will be kicked off of our company's network drives due to the fact that since I started we have maxed them out several times. So I am also trying to build this server with the ability to run an in office nas. I am fairly computer literate and feel confident I can get a solution working but I also haven't touched linux distros since college. Id like to see if any of you fine folks have suggestions on how to build or heck even buy a solution that will be rock solid for a local network storage solution that can be ran on the same server. We are specing out a top model dell precision or poweredge unit (corporate mandates require us to go dell only), we have yet to decide. But it needs to be as set and forget as possible because most everyone else in the department is not computer literate and I cant be 24/7 IT support haha. Just for reference we create about 20-80 gigs of data per day, every day of the week. We try to keep that data reachable for at least 1.5-2 years(laziness is a factor here) then we have been offloading to external drives to save on space. Any advice on this would be super helpful.