Ask HN: Best data storage strategy for SMB
We are a fast growing architectural design studio. We’re currently about 60 designers mainly co-located but with some remote workers and people often work from home.
The designers are mainly working with CAD and increasingly Point Cloud files. Often with multiple people accessing the same files in short periods of time.
Up until now we have been using Dropbox but it is driving the team insane. Sync speed, lack of file locking, clunkiness of selective sync and conflicted copies being the biggest challenges.
We have a web dev engineering team but no one with deep data storage knowledge.
This feels like a common situation for small to medium sized business. How has your company handled it?
- Stick with Dropbox? - Set up your own data center? - Outsource it to a local data specialist? - Use enterprise cloud vendor? - Something else entirely?
We are willing to spend money on the right solution but just currently unsure what that is.