While Dave Hamilton may love spending all day tweaking his Synology NAS, I just don’t have the time or patience anymore. Also, I’m cheap, and most network-attached storage products are too expensive to suit my needs. In the past, I’d spend days (or weeks) tweaking a new app or hardware device until it worked exactly the way I wanted it to work.
Rather, you store data on a device connected to your home or office network, accessible via wired or WiFi local area network or the Internet.Īnd now, a confession: While I do consider myself a geek, the older I get, the less patience and time for tweaking technology I have. Personal cloud storage devices provide many of the same features as services like Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, and others, but with one delightful difference: No monthly charges.įor those with security concerns, there is a second delightful difference: Your data isn’t sitting on someone else’s server in some remote location.
Not so long ago the phrase “simple personal cloud storage” was an oxymoron. Setup and use weren’t simple and prices were more premium than personal.Īllow me to explain… Personal cloud storage (also known as Network Attached Storage or NAS) means one or more hard or solid-state drives in a box that connects to your home/office network via Ethernet so you can access its files remotely or locally.
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