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Post by Sendotsh »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #40

They have some fairly hefty competition: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/drive https://www.drobo.com/homeoffice/#file I'm pretty sure that most NAS vendors have some variation on "Home Cloud." I think most folks that want to set something like this up, will want a turnkey solution.

I recently went from a DIY NAS (Linux PC with lots of HDDs shared on my LAN) to a Synology and am now absolutely in love with it.

All my devices now back themselves up to the NAS overnight. Cameras dump direct into the NAS via a card reader plugged into it. Family can all browse the family photo library from their phones or any device they want or cast slideshows to the TVs. Download torrents with my phone, saving directly to the NAS, then immediately watch it on my TV transcoded in real-time with automatic pulling of subtitles and metadata. I want to marry it.

Sure I’d prefer if all this was open source etc, but I played with FreeNas and various other packages and they don’t even come close in usability or ease of administration.

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Post by necovek »

basch wrote: post #107
necovek wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hum, my memory of the early days of "cloud" as a term paints a different picture. You had highly resilient, scalable, backed up, distributed servers before the "cloud": cloud provided all that with an API and instant UI, and made it affordable. In that sense, "putting my data in the cloud" always makes me giggle, even though I accept how the term has come to be used. What people usually mean with that is that they ar…

What decade are you calling the early days? Early 90s, mid 2000s?

Mid-2000s: the term "cloud" was highly popularized by Amazon, and went on to have this particular connotation for a while.

In the last decade, it has turned to simply mean "on the internet", which, to me, is unnecessary since you can just say "on the internet" instead. Eg. how is an internet file storage service different from cloud storage service?

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Post by quickthrower2 »

anderspitman wrote: post #65
samirm wrote: post #36

Terrible website design. Absolutely no reason to block all content just because I have js turned off.

While it would be nice if they provided HTML endpoints, there are valid reasons for using SPAs, even for text-heavy sites. That said, the loading bar is a bit mind-blowing IMO.

What are those valid reasons?
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