Forgive me, but I feel like I am coming in the middle of a convo here.
What does this thing do?
They say it's like a pocket NAS that you can move anywhere and anybody can easily share files like Dropbox, but then it only comes with 512MB storage? So I am very confused.
Can someone explain in simple terms, what this does and why I (as a Dropbox user) might be interested.
You could run FreeNAS (v7, not sure about later) on that. Not sure if it's worth it for a single drive device.
What does it do?
It's a headless computer, in a tiny form factor that sits on the mains socket, with a drive bay. You use it for whatever you'd use a tiny headless computer for. The low power requirements make "always on" acceptable; thus things like torrenting or file serving or etc etc are okay.
Compare this tiny low-power device running a Linux distribution for file serving with that old desktop - bigger, uglier, hotter, more power hungry.
Then you have access to all the files in those drives via the web browser or via iPhone/Android apps.
You also can sync your files to this plug device by installing a client software on other computers (much like dropbox) but your are files are always private and never stored on the cloud.
It has a 2.5" enclosure. It's basically a hard drive enclosure that plugs directly into the wall, takes little power, has wifi and ethernet, and custom software. It also has an SDK.
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Forgive me, but I feel like I am coming in the middle of a convo here.
What does this thing do?
They say it's like a pocket NAS that you can move anywhere and anybody can easily share files like Dropbox, but then it only comes with 512MB storage? So I am very confused.
Can someone explain in simple terms, what this does and why I (as a Dropbox user) might be interested.
Thanks.
That's 512 MB of RAM, not storage.
You could run FreeNAS (v7, not sure about later) on that. Not sure if it's worth it for a single drive device.
What does it do?
It's a headless computer, in a tiny form factor that sits on the mains socket, with a drive bay. You use it for whatever you'd use a tiny headless computer for. The low power requirements make "always on" acceptable; thus things like torrenting or file serving or etc etc are okay.
Compare this tiny low-power device running a Linux distribution for file serving with that old desktop - bigger, uglier, hotter, more power hungry.
Stick a External USB Drive or connect a internal SATA 2.5 drive into the bay first. http://www.tonidoplug.com/screenshots.html#galleria/img/toni...
Then you have access to all the files in those drives via the web browser or via iPhone/Android apps.
You also can sync your files to this plug device by installing a client software on other computers (much like dropbox) but your are files are always private and never stored on the cloud.
It has a 2.5" enclosure. It's basically a hard drive enclosure that plugs directly into the wall, takes little power, has wifi and ethernet, and custom software. It also has an SDK.
Ahhh...ok....that makes sense.