This sounds awesome! I've been waiting to see a step this direction for a long time. For a lot of people dropbox is the best tool for files, but its ridiculous for the trip between two computers in the same room to have a layover in A3.
Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts 'cloud' in your house
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Re: Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts 'cloud' in your house
#12They give me half of a 2TB drive? Doesn't that mean that I'm getting only one copy of my data stored outside my house? So if a power surge fries my equipment, there's one copy of my data spread across a couple dozen other machines. I guess that's fine as long as no one but me experiences any failures... It's possible that they're just overselling, and they expect most people to use only a couple hundred megs, which w…
I wish they had gone with At least 2 copies offsite - that was one of my first thoughts too.
Then I remember that I used to do backups at most once a year until I moved to the Mac and Time Machine.
(edit: clarify sentence)
Re: Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts 'cloud' in your house
#13This sounds awesome! I've been waiting to see a step this direction for a long time. For a lot of people dropbox is the best tool for files, but its ridiculous for the trip between two computers in the same room to have a layover in A3.
That's why dropbox has lan sync: https://www.dropbox.com/help/137
Re: Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts 'cloud' in your house
#14They give me half of a 2TB drive? Doesn't that mean that I'm getting only one copy of my data stored outside my house? So if a power surge fries my equipment, there's one copy of my data spread across a couple dozen other machines. I guess that's fine as long as no one but me experiences any failures... It's possible that they're just overselling, and they expect most people to use only a couple hundred megs, which w…
In my 25 years using computers, I have never once had any piece of equipment fried by a power surge. I have had things fail, sure - but never by a power surge.
Re: Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts 'cloud' in your house
#15They give me half of a 2TB drive? Doesn't that mean that I'm getting only one copy of my data stored outside my house? So if a power surge fries my equipment, there's one copy of my data spread across a couple dozen other machines. I guess that's fine as long as no one but me experiences any failures... It's possible that they're just overselling, and they expect most people to use only a couple hundred megs, which w…
In my 25 years using computers, I have never once had any piece of equipment fried by a power surge. I have had things fail, sure - but never by a power surge.
You've never had lightning take out equipment? I envy you. Few things are worse than hearing a crack, having the lights go out, and then smelling burning circuit boards.
Re: Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts 'cloud' in your house
#16They give me half of a 2TB drive? Doesn't that mean that I'm getting only one copy of my data stored outside my house? So if a power surge fries my equipment, there's one copy of my data spread across a couple dozen other machines. I guess that's fine as long as no one but me experiences any failures... It's possible that they're just overselling, and they expect most people to use only a couple hundred megs, which w…
I wish they had gone with At least 2 copies offsite - that was one of my first thoughts too. Then I remember that I used to do backups at most once a year until I moved to the Mac and Time Machine. (edit: clarify sentence)
How do they guarantee at least two offsite copies? That would require that they give everyone 1TB out of 3TB. Unless they're also storing on their own servers, in which case the consumer-housed device seems pointless.
And two copies is still pretty low for flaky infrastructure. They're basically setting up your data as a torrent cloud, except there are no seeds if you lose your equipment, so you're trying to download fragments from a bunch of other machines, and each fragment is only on a couple of machines.
Re: Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts 'cloud' in your house
#17Actually, you know who could probably sell this? Comcast. Make a single device that serves as a cable modem and also has this storage angle built in as either a "free" service with the bundle or as a small upsell.
Re: Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts 'cloud' in your house
#18I think this is a great idea but I think Dropbox has a pretty well established brand name. My guess is that most people aren't going to find the need to switch. The ones who might make the switch are the paranoid folks who would think this is some sort of more secure way to sync. The idea is nice but the challenge, IMO, will be in marketing this.
Dropbox is also kinda expensive. $125/year per user starts to add up if you've got a lot of users.
How did you arrive at $125/user? A link for the unaware?
Re: Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts 'cloud' in your house
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dropbox is also kinda expensive. $125/year per user starts to add up if you've got a lot of users.
How did you arrive at $125/user? A link for the unaware?
$125/user is the amount it costs to add another user to a Dropbox for Teams account after your first five users.
Re: Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts 'cloud' in your house
#20This sounds awesome! I've been waiting to see a step this direction for a long time. For a lot of people dropbox is the best tool for files, but its ridiculous for the trip between two computers in the same room to have a layover in A3.
That's why dropbox has lan sync: https://www.dropbox.com/help/137
That has a few big catches, including maintaining an internet connection and being in the same broadcast domain. And looks like it doesn't have lan-only drives, I maintain a box serving up samba shares specifically because the work files in a specific project work files would blow my bandwidth cap for the month in 2 round trips.