Mar
8

Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts ‘cloud’ in your house

By Rob Warner  //  SaaS, Software  //  1 Comment

Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts ‘cloud’ in your house:

Space Monkey uses storage devices located at its users’ premises, not in data centers paid for by the company. When you sign up for Space Monkey, you get a physical networked hard disk with 1TB of storage free for you to use. It’s actually a 2TB drive; the rest gets used by other people on the system.

(Via Hacker News)

Novel approach–if you’re a Space Monkey user, you’re part of the cloud. They give you a hard drive, and half of it has your stuff and half has other people’s, and it’s all encrypted. Not sure how I feel about that, but it certainly drives down costs. I wonder what their drive replacement schedule/policy is?

Author: Rob Warner

Rob Warner has written 203 articles for us.

1 Comment to “Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts ‘cloud’ in your house”

  • Michael Privat March 9, 2012 at 10:14 AM

    This is interesting although while don’t care to have my stuff stored on someone else’s drive (I do it today with Dropbox), I don’t think I want the liability (legal and ethical) of hosting someone else’s potentially illegal and/or morally disturbing content in my house.

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