I need to setup a company dropbox-like service. We can't use dropbox because we need to share large files (10+gb) which causes a few problems…
1) Bandwidth costs would skyrock
2) Performance would suck, compared to running it internally
3) Each user would need a premium DP account
4) Rather run service interally
What are some popular dropbox-like / collaborative file-sharing software?
Best Answer
I would highly suggest placing FreeNAS on a machine with several TB of disk space. The network I managed has two large FreeNAS machines; one is the active server that everybody uses, the other is a backup mirror that is synced daily using the built in rsync features.
FreeNAS will allow you to mount/access the devices several ways: Samba, NFS, SSH, FTP. It will also allow you do granular user privileges.
FreeNAS is also easy to setup and everything can be configured through it's web interface.