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wrkilu

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Hi,

I'm a Linux Administrator. I'm wondering if to create a storage hosting service for companies. Unfortunatelly I don't know what exactly kind of storage whould be enough for it. I could rent a server like this: 4 x 3TB SATA Enterprise with hardware RAID and build on it RAID5 or RAID10. My question is: how many customers (from practice) could handle this kind of storage ? I know of course it depends from type of data, transfers and so on... but maybe someone of you know from practice how this looks like ?

Will be very appreciated for answers.
Regards
 
It is impossible to guess, you have hot, nearline and cold storage. Businesses has very different needs. Another thing, RAID is dead, and should only be used for max a few TB's of storage. You should look into software solutions providing erasure coding.
 
I could rent a server like this: 4 x 3TB SATA Enterprise with hardware RAID and build on it RAID5 or RAID10. My question is: how many customers (from practice) could handle this kind of storage ?
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I guess you are thinking end users who do not store media or images. I mean at work I have 70TB online for less than 20 users. But we are a medical imaging group.
 
You need to know a lot more about your potential customers before even attempting this or asking this question about capacity ;)
 
ToddW2 said:
You need to know a lot more about your potential customers before even attempting this or asking this question about capacity ;)
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Fully agreed. Storage, bandwidth, backup and encryption requirements should be a minimum.
 
I'm thinking about very small companies, they are willing to buy just 30GB of space. For start I plan to run this specific server with access by: Owncloud and FTPS. And the question is if it handle e.g. 50 small companies ? Anyone from you has such experience ?
 
What are you going to offer over Amazon S3 and other places like that?
 
I'm from Poland, my customers don't even know about Amazon. They can know Google Drive or Dropbox - ok, however my superiority could be safety, good contact, better features. The biggest providers sometimes have problems with data leak or they have bad reputation because of eavesdropping.
 
I'm all for value added services for a niche market but it sounds like you don't know your market at all with the questions your asking, and claiming that your potential customers "dont know about" your competitors is a recipe for disaster.

You make it sound like you're going after uneducated customers which means they're likely bargain hunters so places like Google Drive and Dropbox and Backblaze are probably very appealing to them...

Good luck.
 
Leave me that aspect and any others from business creating.

Just please answer (or anyone else) for my technical question..
 
If you run a RAID-6 array which is a bit more safe than RAID-5 you're going to need a lot of users and very small files before it'll start to crawl. You'll max out 100mbit without pretty much any kind of tuning using an i3 CPU or similar. You probably want to look into rsync or syncthing....
 
Ok, thanks for this opinion, always something..

And yes, for backuping I think about rsync twice a day
 
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