[Wylug-discuss] [MASSMAIL]Re: Nutcase Attached Storage

[Gary Stainburn]

On Friday 03 June 2016 10:15:41 Graham Whaley via Wylug-discuss wrote:
> On 2 June 2016 at 17:28, Darren Menachem Drapkin via Wylug-discuss
>
> <wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk> wrote:
> > Earlier today I saw what was advertised as a NAS  for domestic use, in a
> > computer shop. It cost around £150 and had only 2Tbytes of storage. Now
> > call me dyslexic, but that works out, for a family of 4, at only
> > 500Gbytes each, about what I would expect from a mid-range laptop. Hardly
> > NAS sized is it, not at that price anyway.
>
> For a highstreet shop that might be about the going price for 2Tbytes?
> I've been vaguely eyeing up the Western Digital My Cloud devices for a
> year or so - they seem to be value for money, and 2T weighs in about
> £110 right now I think. Given a naked 2T NAS drive starts at ~£70,
> that doesn't seem too terrible.
>
> Speaking of which - we have discussed a number of times folks using
> OwnCloud (I've been considering sticking it in a VM or container on my
> NUC for instance as a home 24-7 place to collect up photos, docs
> etc.). I see in the news that the OwnCloud company has 'forked', there
> is now 'NextCloud', and it seems OwnCloud US will have to close its
> doors, whilst the one in Germany I think will remain open, at the
> moment.
>  It seems the fork/split may have come about, at least in part, from
> differences wrt open source etc.
>
> http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2016/06/nextcloud-is-replacing-owncloud.html
>
> Looks like I'll be trying NextCloud at some point then.
>
> (oh, and yes Darren, I suspect any teenager these days is going to
> blow a 500Mbyte cap pretty quick given the ubiquity of photos and
> videos now - music, pah, that is pretty small. I can fit most of my
> collection on a USB stick these days ;-)
>
>  Graham

(aaahhhhhh,  bottom posting. Haven't had chance to do this in a long time.  
Feels so good :-) )

I have been using OwnCloud for a while now and am very pleased with it. My 
setup consists of a powered USB hub, a 2TB USB drive and a Raspberry Pi2.

This works VERY well, and as well as providing me with my own cloud, it 
integrates with my MAX2PLAY system and also SMB shares.  I find it easier to 
connect my Windows laptops using shares rather than using the Owncloud 
clients. That way it doesn't duplicate the data like Dropbox lookalikes do.  
Yes, there is a downside in that the data is not available offline, but as 
the laptops never leave home that isn't an issue.

Because this is all on a Pi using Raspian Jessie it also means I've got all 
the other services such as DHCP, DNS, firewall/port forwarding and also 
secure HTTP proxy, SSH2.  I did splash out a whole £5 which was the setup fee 
for a static IP with PlusNet which helped.