We have two set's of shared drives on our small peer-to-peer network...
1 - Network Drive - for sharing department and project files
2 - Media Drive System - for our media files (video projects, video & audio assets, etc)
Each is a dedicated PC on our Peer-to-Peer network.
Now we are considering using cloud storage or a cloud drive like Microsoft OneDrive or GoogleDrive or some other such service.
Case 1:
To start we may only do this for the Network Drive with our department and project files (which excludes all our media content)... so in essence we could either...
a - Mirror our local network drive to the cloud
b - give up our local Network Drive PC and put all non-media files in the cloud
In either case once they were on a cloud drive we could then share them to various users as necessary.
- fyi we probably have 150GB of data on the Network Drive with 75% of that legacy data that we need to keep for a variety of reasons.
Case 2:
Next we would consider the possibility of migrating the files on our Media Drive System to the cloud so they could be shared as necessary to complete projects or for backup and later access as needed... if this is even practical considering transfer times, bandwidths requirements, expenses, etc.
In this case we have only a few TB currently on our Media Drive System but have a lot more (stock footage, old projects, etc) that we could add.
My question is how are you folks doing this for Case-1 and Case-2 above?
Thanks for any comments.
1 - Network Drive - for sharing department and project files
2 - Media Drive System - for our media files (video projects, video & audio assets, etc)
Each is a dedicated PC on our Peer-to-Peer network.
Now we are considering using cloud storage or a cloud drive like Microsoft OneDrive or GoogleDrive or some other such service.
Case 1:
To start we may only do this for the Network Drive with our department and project files (which excludes all our media content)... so in essence we could either...
a - Mirror our local network drive to the cloud
b - give up our local Network Drive PC and put all non-media files in the cloud
In either case once they were on a cloud drive we could then share them to various users as necessary.
- fyi we probably have 150GB of data on the Network Drive with 75% of that legacy data that we need to keep for a variety of reasons.
Case 2:
Next we would consider the possibility of migrating the files on our Media Drive System to the cloud so they could be shared as necessary to complete projects or for backup and later access as needed... if this is even practical considering transfer times, bandwidths requirements, expenses, etc.
In this case we have only a few TB currently on our Media Drive System but have a lot more (stock footage, old projects, etc) that we could add.
My question is how are you folks doing this for Case-1 and Case-2 above?
Thanks for any comments.