Hello,
I have around 3/4TB of photos (i store a JPG and a raw file) from maybe years. I just have them on a (external) 4TB HDD, and once a year i back them up to another (external) 4TB HDD (that i for the most part stored on the same location). I recently build a small homelab, just one old gaming pc. Now I and my family use Nextcloud notes, nextcloud contacts, nextcloud calendar, nextcloud phonetrack and more. I thought it would finally be a good time to transfer the photos to a ssd and use them with nextcloud so everyone can view the photos anyware! I run proxmox, so I want to buy one 8TB ssd (or 2x 4TB SSD Raid 0) and use it with something like truenas, to make it available for another proxmox vm where i host nextcloud.
Few questions: can nextcloud store this much? And will it cost any performance? The photos don’t really have any metadata, i just stored them in a folder structure like 2017 -> September ect, will this work with nextcloud? And the most important question: how can i make a GOOD backup system for this? I tought maybe a (encrypted) backup in the cloud, but its just expensive and i dont like the dependence. Any ideas?
Hopefully you can give me some tips and insights about how you would handle this. Thank you!
I run 120TB on a VM with 2 cores and 2gb of ram. Data storage is not very hardware intensive. Now serving the data to dozens of users is where you’re going to have issues.
Number of users total isn’t a big deal, number of concurrent users is. If nobody’s accessing them often it’s not particularly hard on your hardware either