/g/'s thoughts on personal cloud storage drives? What are

>>61219086
It's shit
Just get a NAS instead, either a decent new one or a good used one

Why get this instead of an old used server?

>>61219086
>personal cloud storage drives
what the fuck is that?
a networked hdd?
>>61219099
exactly. what is the difference?

doesnt "cloud" mean it's on the internet and not a personal drive?

Just get NAS.

>>61219086
Shit.
Personal cloud drivers is just a NAS, and those ones you find in department stores (like OP Pic) only have 2 drives. You can only do RAID0 (shit) and RAID1 (shit).
Save your money, build your own server or buy a 4+ bay Synology/QNAP

>>61219086
Wtf? Isn't that just running your own server?

$300 gets you a 72GB RAM Dual Xeon x5650 R710 that will cost between $6-$12 a month to run in electricity. Get the LFF for 6 drives or 2.5" for 8 drives.

>>61219086
Don't buy any of the buffalo products. Get a Synology instead, they are expensive but worth every penny

>be me, got buffalo Livestation 2tb
>filled to the brim with Blu Ray tv shows
>power goes out, try to turn it on and nope.jpg drive is not on the network
>mfw drive firmware got corrupted because of the power surge

>>61219866
UPS

>>61220189
What does the world's largest package delivery company have to do with that?

>>61219086
setting aside the 'cloud' meme it's a reliable network storage device. i've got 2 which i use to automatically backup all my personal files, os images, and store all my home network media content (for use with a plex server).

>>61220406
I do believe that you're just ignorant of what it means so I'll explain, UPS in the technology world means Uninterruptable power supply, not United Parcel Service. As a U.S.P.S mail carrier I initially shared your thoughts as to what it meant.

>>61219866
i use a buffalo WZR-600DHP and synology DS116 and am really happy with both

>>61220536
That's a router not a HDD w/ethernet port

>>61220406
Wrong UPS.
UPS keeps the NAS on after a power surge / power outage so that the NAS can properly shut down. Pretty neat devices, and could've saved your buffalo.

I'm going to hop on this tread real quick
Here's my plan:
>get small 2 drive raidbox, set up as mirroring
>get a pair of 2TB HDD for it
>get a raspi to run private cloud server, considering ownCloud, open to recommendations though
>put the whole shebang on my UPS
Thoughts? I got a bunch of extra google drive space for from my phone awhile back, and it ran out recently. I don't feel like paying for someone else's storage space when HDDs are so cheap these days.

>>61221167
Remember that the rPi has a shared bus between the USB and the ethernet, everything will be painfully slow

>>61220904
>uninterruptible power supply
For those wondering. Basically a backup battery pack.

>>61219266
What's shit about raid1?

Some have a tidy house and want to invite friends over.
Not anyone is willing to have such a nasty cum rack of an old server in his living room.

Thats why some want to use wd mycloud.

>>61219866
I'll second this and add on, do not buy WD unless you are a "typical unintelligent average consumer". Their devices are tailored to that user. Go synology if you want a real nas.

>>61221167
wouldn't it be simpler to get a 2-bay nas that can do owncloud?

>>61219424
I hate fucking 2.5 drives as someone who pretty much has only 3.5 drives. My current servers are old ass 9th gen dells, and im a europoor so it seems to be much harder to find a more modern server for reasonable cost, and everytime I find one it has fucking 2.5 slots, reeeeeee. If I can't find one with 3.5 slots I might as well not buy it as I still need to run at least one of these old shits which can do other jobs too so a newer one would be a waste of money and power
Why rack server manufacturers these days hate us who have 3.5 drives

>>61221678
Is there anything else that would be better that uses roughly the same amount of energy?

>>61223065
there's like a billion cheap ARM SoCs

>>61223125
>ARM SoC
Thank you :3