Need help configuring a solution

[Ojas]

I work in a team to manage IT for a automation company and we need a NAS for the design files . Should we use HexOS for this application or would it be unrelaible for this use case. We have about 8TB of existing data and need to upgrade it to around 30TB for future proofing. If anyone can please suggest any solutions do reply and guide me to the best possible solution.

[Todd Miller]

Bear in mind you are asking about a software app that is not production ready so if you are asking for now and if you are asking for when it goes live and gets through the shakedown period are two very different questions.  A timeframe for when you need it could be helpful, the type of NAS you want (just storage vs developer kit) and any other generic info you can give without divulging corporate secrets might help.  And really that only probably pertains to the apps and access options you would use like would you use Nextcloud to access the NAS and any of its addons for collaboration or development tasks.  Integration with other systems is probably a large consideration.  Though there has been discussions over lifetime and monthly costs, I wonder if the team has thoughts about enterprise opportunities.  If you have time this could be a very interesting due diligence exercise for both yourself and Eshtek to go through but maybe not this soon.

[Ojas]

So to give you a better idea of our requirements and to answer some of your questions . Please consider the following points-

1. Just a storage NAS would be good we dont need any developer kit options for this NAS . Any system which can deliver the files to the network users such that the file loading times in 3D design softwares are not slow would do 

2. NextCloud would be useful too for accessing the data remotley as some of our installation engineers do need to access the data from the servers and now they copy the entire projrct onto thier laptops before going to the installation site which is not ideal or time efficient

3. I have some time as the system we currently have is still working and the top managment is not excited to buy a new NAS system given the current market conditions ,but we need to decide on a solution sooner rather than later as the hard drives in the current system are about 10-12 years old and may spin for the last time any day now