I recovered a RS814 rack chassis from a job earlier this year, just got some drives for it and set it up yesterday as I would any other. Just waiting for the RAID parity checks to finish then I’ll put 7 on it.
For me Active Insite is going to be really useful. There will be a cloud console (and app) that will monitor the health of all the units I manage. I’m already using the O365 and G Suite backup apps but apparently integration is going to be enhanced. On that point G Suite is so much easier to administer than O365 in every way it’s untrue.
Hybrid Share looks interesting. Keep your data in the C2 cloud and only cache frequently used data on your local NAS. That could significantly cut start up costs as you will only need (relatively) small drives locally. That data store can be accessed by multiple NAS each with their own local cache so will be great for a small business with multiple sites. The question is how do you back it up and cost? The trial comes with a free 1TB but unfortunately needs a + model and I’m not going to commit the production box.
I can see it being very useful for one customer, a buildings surveyor. They need local files when working on the survey and then send a link for their customers to download the docs and pics. After that it’s really an archive job retaining customers data for X years just in case. Makes a lot of sense to punt that archive into the cloud, especially if no user intervention is required in the process.
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