[nfbcs] Local NAS VS Cloud Storage

[Peter Donahue]

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.
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