As an engineer / architect and a team of 4-5 persons, small office, I currently have around 100GB of project data. I know it is not much, but I am currently planning for our next system.

Generally we use self-hosted apps like Vikunja, Joplin and so on.

I am in a loss on what should I do for my next system.

Option 1:

Get a synology NAS with 2 or 4 Slots (RAID-1 and 5 respectively), and a mini PC to run our apps

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Option 2:

Get an SFF or mini ITX PC with i7 in which I will install Proxmox and TrueNAS where I will assign 2xSSD with ZFS for SSD storage, while running all the other apps we want.

For option 1 I understand that I should probably go with 4-bay NAS which will cost a great amount money and would still be running spinning disks and have 1gbe port.

For option 2 I am not sure if it is great idea having a server for everything

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What are your suggestions?

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  • thekrautboy@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Fyi this sub here is about selfhosting software services, not about any hardware purchase or upgrade advice.

    Consider subs like /r/HomeServer /r/Homelab /r/BuildaPC /r/Synology /r/QNAP etc for that.

  • GolemancerVekk@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I would ask in /r/sysadmin or some of the other suggested subs. Even if you were asking about software, this sub is mostly about DIY stuff and may not play that well with an office setup.

  • sarinkhan@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    To be honest I prefer option 2 to option 1. However I like to separate my Nas and my app server. VM might be enough of a speration, but here are two other options:

    3 - A powerful minipc for the apps + a cheaper one for the nas

    4 - two powerful enough computers,both having the Nas and the app, for redundancy.