[nfbcs] Local NAS VS Cloud Storage

Sat Nov 17 17:43:12 UTC 2012

Thank you, this is exactly what I need. You wrote it very well.

Gabe Vega 
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On Nov 15, 2012, at 2:11 PM, "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> Good afternoon everyone,
> 
>    I believe what Gabe wants to have is a local drive from which he can 
> access its content via the Internet as apposed to a cloud storage service 
> such as Sky Drive or Cloud Drive. Cloud Drive from Rackspace is the one we 
> use. It runs under JungleDisk.  The JungleDisk Activity Monitor is very 
> accessible with JAWS but the Web interface is proving to be problematic. 
> This however is off-set by the fact that your Rackspace Cloud Drive shows up 
> on your deskktop or laptop as an additional drive in Computer or Windows 
> Explorer giving you complete access to the drive's content without having to 
> use the Web Interface.
> 
>    We have it running on all three of our machines and generally speaking 
> it works well. Sometimes you get strange errors when you shut down your 
> computer but the system  comes back without any trouble the next time you 
> start or reboot your computer. It's pretty neat being able to hear content 
> you recorded or downloaded on your PC or via a smart phone from anywhere you 
> happen to be. But as Jim an others pointed out these systems come with a 
> price.
> 
>    The approach I believe Gave wants is to own the drive and connect it to 
> his router or a switch giving him access to his stored files from anywhere 
> on his local network or over the Internet. We've been investigating a 
> product from Buffalo Technologies I believe will meet our file storage needs 
> nicely and allow us to take a bite out of the price of off-site storage 
> which is what Cloud Drive and similar file storage services are. The other 
> side of using an off-site storage service is that should a fire or other 
> technical issue occur your data will be protected. On the flit side storing 
> important data on a NAS drive will allow you to avoid the cost for off-site 
> storage. These systems have their plusses and minuses. It's a matter of 
> deciding which will be the best fit for your needs. Hope this helps.
> 
> Peter Donahue
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Barbour" <jbar at barcore.com>
> To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 1:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] anyone use pho plug?
> 
> 
> Your question is a bit vague, so let me see if I can add some flavor
> here.
> 
> You can -- using services like pogo plug, dropbox, sugarsync, google
> drive -- make data available to you on the internet from a local drive
> on your machine.  None of this will be free and the data must all be
> uploaded to the cloud servers.  The benefits of doing it this way is
> that you now have a backup of the data in the cloud.  The downsides of
> this are they you have to pay for storage, and then upload the data to
> the cloud servers.
> 
> I hope this answers your question.  If not, feel free to ask more.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:19:05PM -0700, Gabe Vega wrote:
>> would like to hook up a 1tb usb drive to the internet and have access to 
>> it from anywhere. does anyone know how this can be done, via pogoplug or 
>> any other solution? Thanks.
>> Gabe Vega - Sent from my MacbookAir
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