Need 4-10 TB storage space for video storage in a school...adding more to school's Google drive is prohibitively expensive
Hi all,
Apologies if I'm asking the same thing that's been asked before 70 times...I didn't see anything that similar, and there are some specific concerns. I'm blown away by the collective knowledge here, so I appreciate the help.
I’m a high school photo/video teacher. My students and I are constantly hitting data caps on our school-provided Google Workspace for Education account. The school has maxed out its pooled storage and due to the cost, it's not really an option to pay to upgrade to the next tier. Because we do digital video, we use a lot of data (we are only using the cloud to organize, safely archive, and retrieve finished....not footage editing other than temporary emergency storage)
I had a desktop RAID which SHOULD be a good solution, but it failed and I lost data, so I even more adamantly want a secure cloud backup. Portable drives/discs are too slow and risky, and our IT department explicitly does not want to manage a local NAS.
We'd be OK with 5-10 TB...that gives us headroom for the next couple of years at this rate.
Ideally we don't want to pay more than $50/month, but I know that can be limiting for options.
We can't really use a single, personal account. I don't mind it being managed by IT (that's probably our only real option), but it needs to have more than one login.
We're looking for this to be a shared drive...more than one person should be able to log into it.
Would be nice if it is mountable on MacOS or Windows desktops, but that's not necessarily a dealbreaker.
I'd be doing most of the uploading and organization, but students and admins would need access to view, retrieve, and possibly place files.
We can't go glacier (too slow) or something that charges for uploading/downloading.
And the fun part....we want it to be legitimate and IT-manageable but the provider needs to be highly reliable and ideally FERPA-compliant or secure enough for a school environment.
I've heard suggestions for pcloud, Backblaze B2, and iDrive. But nothing solid.
Seems that what I want is very straightforward....but I'm sure that's what all corner cases think :)
I'd appreciate any insight that doesn't include IT doing an NAS, me doing a DAS or hard drives, so if any of you know of a solution that would work here, thanks in advance!