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lapa321:

--- Quote from: AnimeJanai on April 27, 2012, 11:26:23 PM ---Anyone use one of those "cloud" type external hard drives that plugs into your wireless router and is thus a drive that is available to all your wifi devices?  The 2TB iOmega one was on sale at Fry's for several weeks in a row at $159.
http://www.netaffilia.com/images/2012/04/06/15271139.jpg

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'Cloud' refers to offsite storage. The picture you posted is an NAS and meant for local network storage. Whether or not you can access it from outside the network is at the discretion of the router.

They usually support SAMBA/SMB which is the same one windows folder sharing function uses, so they're listed on your network folder as another PC.

I don't know what model that pic you posted is. But some things to consider
- Can you connect a PC directly to it? (Either USB or firewire)
- The file system they use (If it only uses linux filesystems... ouch)
- The network type (10/100 or Gigabit?)
- The data transfer speed (All NAS are fast enough for video streaming, but you don't want to spend hours uploading videos into it right?)

FlyinPenguin:

--- Quote from: lapa321 on April 28, 2012, 04:01:08 AM ---
--- Quote from: AnimeJanai on April 27, 2012, 11:26:23 PM ---Anyone use one of those "cloud" type external hard drives that plugs into your wireless router and is thus a drive that is available to all your wifi devices?  The 2TB iOmega one was on sale at Fry's for several weeks in a row at $159.
http://www.netaffilia.com/images/2012/04/06/15271139.jpg

--- End quote ---

'Cloud' refers to offsite storage. The picture you posted is an NAS and meant for local network storage. Whether or not you can access it from outside the network is at the discretion of the router.

They usually support SAMBA/SMB which is the same one windows folder sharing function uses, so they're listed on your network folder as another PC.

I don't know what model that pic you posted is. But some things to consider
- Can you connect a PC directly to it? (Either USB or firewire)
- The file system they use (If it only uses linux filesystems... ouch)
- The network type (10/100 or Gigabit?)
- The data transfer speed (All NAS are fast enough for video streaming, but you don't want to spend hours uploading videos into it right?)

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Yeah, that isn't "cloud" storage. That is NAS storage. I suppose for other users you authorized to have access to your drive through internet, they could consider it cloud storage. Really though, that is just marketing nonsense. Any NAS or even your own server set up with outside internet accessibility could be considered "cloud" storage.

AnimeJanai:
Regardless of the terminology, the "cloud" label seems to be staying as a way of differentiating different types of NAS devices on the retail boxes.  I can glance at the daunting 40 feet of multi-row hard drive offerings at one local Fry's store and and "cloud" sticks out right away without the need to pick up each box to read the fine print.  At the store, there's the usual old NAS method that required PCs and a LAN and that is clearly marked on the box.  Then there's the new crop of NAS for "cloud" storage that is also marked on the box.  There's even a Hitachi external standalone drive right now being advertised as a "cloud" type device that can be used by all your wireless devices once it is simply plugged into your wireless router.  Hitachi seems to be going all out for the external storage market and is even pushing a premium "G" type line of their drives in heavy metal boxes.  The external boxes have been priced so low (beneath raw drive prices in some cases) now that they are driving the raw drive prices downwards at the local retail stores.  The Hitachi Deskstar 2TB 7200RPM 64MB cache drives are now $112 USD.

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