[TriLUG] Network Attached Storage Recommendation

[matt at noway2.thruhere.net]

This gets into the realm of interpersonal politics.  There is a lot of
contention between the person managing the servers and the users of said
servers and management is unwilling or unable to intercede.  I can't say
whether or not the issues are due to intentional activity or not, but
there is certainly an aspect of "I don't care" when it comes to solving
them.

Part of the idea of getting away from these servers and going to an
attached storage system, which I might put another location is to take it
out of this persons hands by providing an alternative; one that is managed
by myself instead of this person.

> I'm not so sure swapping storage will solve the issue you're
> experiencing...
>
> I'd figure out the why before blindly swapping things that take lots of
> time and money.
>
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> Subject: [TriLUG] Network Attached Storage Recommendation
>
> At work, we have some Windows servers that are used for common shared
> drive access via mapped drive syncing.  This has proven itself to be
> problematic in terms of reliability.  For example, someone will make a
> change to a file only to find later that it didn't really update when
> someone else tries to access it, yet gave no indication of an error.