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NAS: Applying uncommon restrictions
I hate to have my first post on a forum be one asking for help, but I can't find my answer alone so hopefully someone here has done what I'm hoping to do.
My goal is to have a NAS device on an internal network that will have about 30-40 different machines connecting at different times. I only expect a handful (<5) at any one time.
That seems to be very easy, but the important part of all these users is that I want to restrict not only which files they can access, but how much bandwidth they can use per time. I would prefer that this is a relatively short time period like a day or week, but even a month could work. So the users may have access to a folder with 2TB of data and they can download anything they want until they have used 100GB of transfer and then they are blocked until the time resets.
I've read dozens of reviews and read the manual for the QNAP 439 and the FreeNAS guide, but I can't find anything anywhere they suggests that any product would support this. Do ISPs and shared hosting providers have software that’s never used elsewhere?
If possible I would also like to restrict user account access to specific MAC addresses so that a valid account is tied to a computer, if I can list 2 or 3 MAC addresses per account that would be perfect.
Requirements:
-User accounts with bandwidth limits (see above)
-Giga-bit port
-Windows compatibility (Mac compatibility would be very much preferred too)
-At least 4 bays (5 or 6 wouldn’t hurt)
-RAID5 support (Or similar disk failure handling)
Budget:
I don't have an exact number, but I'm hoping not to spend more then $900-1000 to get this running, so if I run RAID5 with at least four 1TB disks ($80 each), that leaves $680 for the device itself.
I hate to have my first post on a forum be one asking for help, but I can't find my answer alone so hopefully someone here has done what I'm hoping to do.
My goal is to have a NAS device on an internal network that will have about 30-40 different machines connecting at different times. I only expect a handful (<5) at any one time.
That seems to be very easy, but the important part of all these users is that I want to restrict not only which files they can access, but how much bandwidth they can use per time. I would prefer that this is a relatively short time period like a day or week, but even a month could work. So the users may have access to a folder with 2TB of data and they can download anything they want until they have used 100GB of transfer and then they are blocked until the time resets.
I've read dozens of reviews and read the manual for the QNAP 439 and the FreeNAS guide, but I can't find anything anywhere they suggests that any product would support this. Do ISPs and shared hosting providers have software that’s never used elsewhere?
If possible I would also like to restrict user account access to specific MAC addresses so that a valid account is tied to a computer, if I can list 2 or 3 MAC addresses per account that would be perfect.
Requirements:
-User accounts with bandwidth limits (see above)
-Giga-bit port
-Windows compatibility (Mac compatibility would be very much preferred too)
-At least 4 bays (5 or 6 wouldn’t hurt)
-RAID5 support (Or similar disk failure handling)
Budget:
I don't have an exact number, but I'm hoping not to spend more then $900-1000 to get this running, so if I run RAID5 with at least four 1TB disks ($80 each), that leaves $680 for the device itself.
