• What is Aurinoco's NAS service?
  • Features
  • Cost
    • Cost comparison with a commercial offering
• Supported networked file systems
  • CIFS share (previously SMB share, commonly known as Windows share)
  • NFSv4

What is Aurinoco's NAS service?¶

Aurinoco's NAS service provides networked file systems such as Windows shares.

Features¶

• Provided by monitored servers in A/C rooms with UPS backup and Diesel generators
• Primary and standby servers.
• Synchronisation to standby via snapshots.
• Backup via snapshots, retained for 28 days
• Space in increments of 100 GB, max 80% utilisation.
• Group and user administration

Cost¶

The NAS service requires disks and associated servers. Thus it has a real cost in hardware that has to be bought outside Auroville. So Aurinoco must charge. Prices were calculated to cover actual cost only.

• Rs.6 per GB per year, increments of 100 GB
• Rs.24 per GB per year contribution to server costs
• Free buildings, AC, de-humidification and UPS
• Free systems administration

Cost comparison with a commercial offering¶

Direct comparisons are impossible because:

• Typical commercial offerings do not include a standby server or backup.
• Remote commercial offerings are accessed at Internet speed rather than Aurinoco's in-Auroville network speed.

For example, a Hetzner storage box is cheaper than Aurinoco's NAS service. In Aug 2018 and ignoring any currency conversion cost, Hetzner BX10 has 100 GB for Eur 2.90 pcm > Eur 35 pa > Rs.2,881 pa. Aurinoco's NAS service for 100 GB would be 3,000 pa.

Supported networked file systems¶

CIFS share (previously SMB share, commonly known as Windows share)¶

Implemented.

NFSv4¶

In development.