Hi , I was setting up a new office and thinking instead of setting up a server where every computer has a network drive to share data maybe I should just look at Cloud Storage for Business. Has anyone considered it or done it yet? Sounds like a cost saving excercise as Services like One Drive charges like $13.50 per month for unlimited storage and you can download the same login on to as many computers as you want so thought I'll check with everyeon and take their feedback.
Network Storage for Office
dealover on 01/07/2019 - 17:10
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Do you have NBN or ADSL?
NBN
Have you tried Onedrive? I find it slow
Not yet
With good enough internet OneDrive for business is sufficient for shared drives. Super convenient to lookup information from the OneDrive phone app when away from the office.
I personally have shared drives on a NAS syncing to OneDrive and it's perfect on my FTTP connection. That way I have both physical onsite and cloud copies with redundancy. If you're looking at a NAS I recommend Synology as they have good OneDrive and O365 integration.
Several years ago I never would have recommended OneDrive for business though as it had major issues. No issues in the last 2 of my use however.
+1 for this option
I am having HFC at home and I am doing exactly the same thing.
Local storage for drives and sync important home drives contents to OneDrive - they are very stable.I am using DS1819+ along with OneDrive for Business, I do have Office personal account just to store other files so these two accounts are seprate.
Can someone please explain what is NAS syncing , HFC etc ?
If you have a fast enough connection just the lack of the headache of managing hardware is worth going to the cloud with Microsoft or Google's options. Just pay the cost per person, it's worth it. Use them for email etc too. Most non-IT businesses don't need any servers then.
Note that upload speed is important if generating a lot of data.
Go cloud, less hassles and data is being backed up in multiple locations, you should look at combing email and other services as well of you want to save some overall cash.
If you do cloud storage for Teams just be aware of sync storms that flat line your office internet link.
E.g. guy gets in to the office and dumps 100meg into Onedrive which has to be uploaded. Then once uploaded everyone sharing that drive starts to download it say 10 people that is 1000meg.
You can use on newer clients thin syncing to stop this. The files are downloaded on demand.
Link to read more: https://products.office.com/en-AU/onedrive-for-business/comp…