We can easily attach a NAS or external hard disk (At least 1TB of data!) to router and setup our own cloud, why are we paying for a service? Furthermore, you need to DL the content, isn't that need of a data plan? Maybe cloud for those don't know much on technical stuffs? Till now, even I got a router (NT-16, few years ago) able to link to an external disk, I don't bother to setup too. While external hard disk so portable, memory cards so cheap, cloud still worth to be there? :think:
Do we really need a cloud service?
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Cloud works if you need to access your file from outside your place frequently. Hosting yourself is not as reliable.
I can access my NAS from outside. Almost same as a cloud service. Nowadays, WD also come out with Personal cloud, but the drive is in your home rather than a service which you are paying.
Both are not cloud in the technical definition that is used in IT. Just marketing blabber.
I could remotely access my home systems already in 1998 via ISDN dial-in, triggered by a missed call. Nobody called it Cloud. Suddenly everything is cloud, which is a rather foggy or nebulous..
Cloud is defined by Virtualization and Distribution of data across multiple systems (not components). Where does your NAS does any of this? RAID is not cloud.
My nas is connected to a router n I can control access if I want to share to other. So, isn't that similar to a cloud service? I using asus nt16 for few years already. But I just didn't setup as I don't need remote access. It also can act as a dl server whereby cloud can't, ha ha!
No. Simple as that.
Again, please read up a bit what cloud means before you start discussing it or even raise the question whether it is required. A download server is also not equal or related to 'could'.
I think there is definitely a future for cloud computing. Just that we are still in its infancy stages where the infrastructure is still being developed and there is a price premium to pay for being the first few users. Once more people make use of cloud computing such as Google Apps, the development of this technology would definitely accelerate even more quickly, and at a more affordable cost.
Personally I am already deriving some small benefits of using Google Apps and can see how it can translate to both personal and business uses in the future. Definitely a 'need' going forward!
Personally I am already deriving some small benefits of using Google Apps and can see how it can translate to both personal and business uses in the future. Definitely a 'need' going forward!
It's a convenience... Just like handphone last time. No one would think that it's a necessity with public phone sprawled around the city.
You can backup your saved games to PSN cloud and whenever your PS console goes kaput you can download your saved games to the new unit and continue from where you left off.
Or, you can do that to your razer mouse profile....
You can backup your saved games to PSN cloud and whenever your PS console goes kaput you can download your saved games to the new unit and continue from where you left off.
Or, you can do that to your razer mouse profile....
What cloud offers, doesn't seem to lure me into when I got my own nas/external hdd which connected to a router which having similar cloud functions. On top of that, my router could perform auto download service which cloud can't. So, cloud not for me n some. I not going to pay for a service which I "consider" having it at home. Heh heh!
Cloud service is much more than just putting a HDD space to the router and letting the file available securely on the internet.
1) Your assumption / "consideration" is wrong. What you have there has nothing to do with cloud.
2) Cloud does not equal to paying.
I will not repeat myself here. Go and do some read up and studying.
I read up n find no different from what I doing. Maybe we having the different thinking lor. Case closed.
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