Hello everyone. I have a small remote office that is needing a good file storage setup. They'll be saving a lot of images. I'm trying to decide the best thing for them while trying to keep in within a certain budget. Obviously the less that can be spent the better, but they don't want to go with a cheap thrown together option. They'd like something that is either redundant or that will need to be backed up often. I kind of figure if it's redundant (like a RAID setup) than a regular backup is as necessary. However, if it's just an external drive hanging off of a computer than backing it up often becomes a necessity. Does that make sense?

There's the idea of using a RAID system (like the DROBO or something cheaper), a new workstation with huge internal drives shared over the network, a huge external drive connected via USB and shared over the network, etc. We want an easy solution, too, not one that will require much ongoing administration. An easy setup and minimal administration on anyone's part is preferred.

We've spec'd out a workstation idea for them and that will cost around $2,500. This cost includes a couple of network drops. The system has an internal 500GB drive and an external 500GB drive that would be used to back up the internal drive to. What are you thoughts on a good way to accomplish this?