Hi there. Our organization is about to receive a large orthoimagery flight package, roughly 1.5+ TB's of data. In the past, we would store our imagery datasets on a server hosting our enterprise geodatabases. But our IT team is giving us grief about the space of this flight; it's way larger than what we've stored before. There simply is no space on the current architecture to support this new imagery. They mentioned exploring a NAS option, but admittedly I am not too familiar with this as a hosting solution.
Doing a bit of research I stumbled upon this: https://doc.arcgis.com/en/imagery/workflows/best-practices/storing-mosaic-datasets.htm and ESRI mentions "one popular pattern is to store the mosaic dataset being used for authoring on a NAS or SAN, then prior to publishing, copy it to the appropriate servers using a directory name that is the same as the original." But honestly, I am not sure what is meant by that statement ...
What do y'all use for storing large mosaic datasets?
Note we will also need to host this imagery on our internal portal via ArcGIS Server/Image Server.
