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Hello all, I have been a long time reader of the HardForum. It was initially my source to build a HTPC years ago.
I am writing for advice:
Here is the scenario. I own a marketing firm in Florida where we are currently using a Drobo and a DroboShare (to access it over the network) In the office this works great we have about 10 creative people accessing the drive without an issue. Here comes the problem. I now have an office in Miami and one in California, which both need these files as well.
Often times the design team in Miami will continue on a project that we have started in North Florida and vice versa. So files would need to stay synced at all time throughout these offices. The issue here is we have design files all the time that are over 100mb each. Its not often that we need the files within minutes of other but there is some sharing involved.
Some things that I have tried are Dropbox:
which worked instantly and was great but they have a small file storage limit and you have to work from a local folder at all times. Which in our case would not work if we are using network drives and external drives.
Another solution we tried was a service called SpiderOak:
This was very slow on the sync but did allow us to sync folders in the network to each other. Sounds great but managing the files locally and in the cloud has been a nightmare. Files that were deleted from local computer are still up in the cloud and so on. We have to much going on to manage each file independently to make sure the could is up to date.
So I know i rambled a lot here but I hope someone can help put a little light on the subject.
Ideally some features we are looking for are:
1) real time automatic syncing (like dropbox)
2) able to sync drives in a network (right now they are mapped)
3) Deletion of files will also sync on the other end.
4) Large file sizes. (total size of data on drive currently is close to 500gb. but individual file sizes are sometimes 100 - 150mb.
5) can work with both PC and Mac
I hope I didn't ramble for two long but wanted to be clear about the current situation. We currently do not have a server at either location.
Thanks in advance.
Kris
I am writing for advice:
Here is the scenario. I own a marketing firm in Florida where we are currently using a Drobo and a DroboShare (to access it over the network) In the office this works great we have about 10 creative people accessing the drive without an issue. Here comes the problem. I now have an office in Miami and one in California, which both need these files as well.
Often times the design team in Miami will continue on a project that we have started in North Florida and vice versa. So files would need to stay synced at all time throughout these offices. The issue here is we have design files all the time that are over 100mb each. Its not often that we need the files within minutes of other but there is some sharing involved.
Some things that I have tried are Dropbox:
which worked instantly and was great but they have a small file storage limit and you have to work from a local folder at all times. Which in our case would not work if we are using network drives and external drives.
Another solution we tried was a service called SpiderOak:
This was very slow on the sync but did allow us to sync folders in the network to each other. Sounds great but managing the files locally and in the cloud has been a nightmare. Files that were deleted from local computer are still up in the cloud and so on. We have to much going on to manage each file independently to make sure the could is up to date.
So I know i rambled a lot here but I hope someone can help put a little light on the subject.
Ideally some features we are looking for are:
1) real time automatic syncing (like dropbox)
2) able to sync drives in a network (right now they are mapped)
3) Deletion of files will also sync on the other end.
4) Large file sizes. (total size of data on drive currently is close to 500gb. but individual file sizes are sometimes 100 - 150mb.
5) can work with both PC and Mac
I hope I didn't ramble for two long but wanted to be clear about the current situation. We currently do not have a server at either location.
Thanks in advance.
Kris