Its safe, not likely to get hacked if you lock down your network, Dropbox and all of the other services are the same thing except you don't see the drive. Space wise it's cheaper in the long run. Also you have remote access to it. Think again
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Seagate Debuts iOS-Compatible Storage Option, Personal Cloud and Ultra-Thin Portable Hard Drive
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Imagine the free WiFi switches off for ten seconds for whatever reason, and your phone switches instantly without you noticing to a 3G connection. Without switching back when the WiFi comes back. At a dollar per MB.
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Not for general files, but it is not difficult to build an external storage device that pretends to be a web server, so that you could play music or videos or watch photos from any device with a web browser.
What I really want is cheaper portable SSD drives not more HDD options. I've had 3 of these fail in the past 2 years. They're simply not robust enough to be used as a portable device.
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Unless you get a HDD with a 2 bay mirrored RAID configuration it's not as safe as cloud storage and just as easily hacked if you don't know what you're doing. Remember if you're using it for remote access then by definition the drive has to be permanently accessible via the internet.
Personal cloud is a bit pointless for iTunes storage anyway. You can just as easily stream your purchased content directly from your iTunes library without having to download it. It's not something Apple make very clear for some reason.
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I purchased the 2TB Seagate Wireless drive to do just that and it's a ****ing joke. It refuses to play any of my iTunes Films or TV Shows even though they are on the drive. The wifi signal is totally unreliable and keeps crashing leaving me with no internet access while using the drive. When I complained to Seagate they just said I should have bought an Android phone as it works fine with those and blamed it on Apple making life difficult for drive manufacturers because they don't want people to buy the 16GB iPhone and use external storage. They'd rather you shelled out the extra for the 128GB version.
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Unless you get a HDD with a 2 bay mirrored RAID configuration it's not as safe as cloud storage and just as easily hacked if you don't know what you're doing. Remember if you're using it for remote access then by definition the drive has to be permanently accessible via the internet.
Personal cloud is a bit pointless for iTunes storage anyway. You can just as easily stream your purchased content directly from your iTunes library without having to download it. It's not something Apple make very clear for some reason.
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I purchased the 2TB Seagate Wireless drive to do just that and it's a ****ing joke. It refuses to play any of my iTunes Films or TV Shows even though they are on the drive. The wifi signal is totally unreliable and keeps crashing leaving me with no internet access while using the drive. When I complained to Seagate they just said I should have bought an Android phone as it works fine with those and blamed it on Apple making life difficult for drive manufacturers because they don't want people to buy the 16GB iPhone and use external storage. They'd rather you shelled out the extra for the 128GB version.
I recently bought a WD My Cloud and was very hesitant due to the reviews, but it works flawlessly and it's super fast. I copied a 2gb movie to it from my Mac in less than two min.
Allows me to stream it to me smart tv's, Xbox one, iPad, iPhones, etc. Very good product to me.
Always looking for a solution that I can set it to MOVE contents from the Camera Roll to external drive via cable/wifi with user-defined date range just like how we work with a computer - but without a computer.
Wish one day I can just tell my mom "all you have to do is to select a date, and all the photos and videos of your grand-kids before it will be safely backup to this drive."
And of course, the other way around, "all you have to do is to pick a date range, all the photos and videos within it will be loaded from here onto your iPad."
Technically easy, but seriously why there isn't a for-laymen app available? The apps available on the market now is too much for non-techie elders.
Wish one day I can just tell my mom "all you have to do is to select a date, and all the photos and videos of your grand-kids before it will be safely backup to this drive."
And of course, the other way around, "all you have to do is to pick a date range, all the photos and videos within it will be loaded from here onto your iPad."
Technically easy, but seriously why there isn't a for-laymen app available? The apps available on the market now is too much for non-techie elders.
You miss my point entirely. With the appropriate software extensions from Apple this kind of backup certainly is possible.
Apps would not work on this. From the description, you can stream music, photos and video from the drive presumably with the use of a popritary app. You might be able to copy files off of it and open in other files (like read a PDF or open a doc file in Word). You might even be able to save it back to the drive from iOS.
Recently bought this:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1330
Best wireless hard drive I've used so far.
DLNA works pretty good. 2TB option, exFAT compatible and USB 3 connection.
Just waiting for Apple TV to allow apps so I can get a DLNA capable app (Good Player) so I won't need an iTunes server.
Used it with Amazon Fire TV stick and it's pretty slick.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1330
Best wireless hard drive I've used so far.
DLNA works pretty good. 2TB option, exFAT compatible and USB 3 connection.
Just waiting for Apple TV to allow apps so I can get a DLNA capable app (Good Player) so I won't need an iTunes server.
Used it with Amazon Fire TV stick and it's pretty slick.
No Direct Connection for Cloud Drives?
I don't understand why these moronic companies don't allow us to connect these damn cloud drives to our computers!!! They are freaking HARD DRIVES first, why is it an industry standard not to make it so we can easily transfer the data? I've tried several solutions from Seagate and Western Digital and none of them allow direct connection to my computer.
I can't transfer multi Terrabytes of data over my network, heck I can't even transfer multi-gigabytes of data to these drives. All I want is an 8 TB Cloud Drive, that will allow me to directly connect to my MBP transfer the data, then use it as a streaming device (or cloud server).
I don't understand why these moronic companies don't allow us to connect these damn cloud drives to our computers!!! They are freaking HARD DRIVES first, why is it an industry standard not to make it so we can easily transfer the data? I've tried several solutions from Seagate and Western Digital and none of them allow direct connection to my computer.
I can't transfer multi Terrabytes of data over my network, heck I can't even transfer multi-gigabytes of data to these drives. All I want is an 8 TB Cloud Drive, that will allow me to directly connect to my MBP transfer the data, then use it as a streaming device (or cloud server).
Gotcha. That would be a great idea actually. I would love to back up my app data per app and not one snapshot state of my entire iOS device as it does currently in iCloud backup. That would free my space up tremendously from games that I have save data on.
The road is the whole point of the cloud
I don't understand how you can say "forget the road" when it comes to personal/home cloud computing. That's the whole point of it. If you're at home you don't need "personal cloud computing" because, well, you're already in the "cloud." The only time you would ever use a personal cloud is when you are on the road.
I agree that not everyone lives in the same situation. However, a personal cloud is only useful when you are away from home, regardless of your situation.
I don't understand how you can say "forget the road" when it comes to personal/home cloud computing. That's the whole point of it. If you're at home you don't need "personal cloud computing" because, well, you're already in the "cloud." The only time you would ever use a personal cloud is when you are on the road.
I agree that not everyone lives in the same situation. However, a personal cloud is only useful when you are away from home, regardless of your situation.
this thin portable hard drive doesn't make much sense to me. I want my portable hard drive to resist shocks and drops. Put shock absorbing foam around it instead of thinning it down!
I haven't made any good experiences with such Wifi drives
first of all, I've tried several SDHC-Cardreader with Wifi, on iOS much too unreliable and slow, on Android a little bit faster. Next try, an Intenso harddisk Wifi drive, seems to be the same App. Transfer is faster, but, settings of the App is a real desaster, no one of my friends would be able to set up such a drive, you have to be a network expert! Downside two, if you have copied large picture folders on it, say, hundreds of jpegs, you have to wait very long, to view the thumbnails, and going back through the folder you have to wait once more (on the iPad app). Doesn't matter, how far the drive is laying around, two meters or two centimeters, the connections aren't that stable. In the end, I use it only over USB on my Mac. All in all, much too slow and unreliable!
first of all, I've tried several SDHC-Cardreader with Wifi, on iOS much too unreliable and slow, on Android a little bit faster. Next try, an Intenso harddisk Wifi drive, seems to be the same App. Transfer is faster, but, settings of the App is a real desaster, no one of my friends would be able to set up such a drive, you have to be a network expert! Downside two, if you have copied large picture folders on it, say, hundreds of jpegs, you have to wait very long, to view the thumbnails, and going back through the folder you have to wait once more (on the iPad app). Doesn't matter, how far the drive is laying around, two meters or two centimeters, the connections aren't that stable. In the end, I use it only over USB on my Mac. All in all, much too slow and unreliable!
Not all hotel rooms come with free wifi, especially in foreign countries.
Wifi could cost $10 - $25 a day.
I said it was easy. I didn't say Seagate could do it
OK, what Seagate responded to you is utter nonsense. This has nothing to do with drives, this has only to do with their WiFi.
Aint that the truth. I have never had so many drive failures from any other brand. At work we have tons of drives and computers. 9 times out of 10 its a seagate that fails. Had a few WD, but never had an Hitachi drive fail.
Don't buy seagate unless you don't care about your date.
Wish you guys would quit with negative reviews of the Lacie/seagate drives!
I just bought one and its making me nervous.
In my experience the WD drives have been the worst for me! I bought 2 on separate occasions and both failed within a couple of weeks.
I just bought one and its making me nervous.
In my experience the WD drives have been the worst for me! I bought 2 on separate occasions and both failed within a couple of weeks.