Data points...

Between the questionable security offered by companies that provide online "cloud" storage^[1] and the fact that you're renting disk real estate and not buying it, there's been interest in creating personal clouds, especially since massive amounts of storage can be had for very reasonable prices. I've been experimenting with something called ownCloud the past couple of weeks, running it on a Raspberry Pi with attched USB storage. The jury is still out on my experience, which has not been without bumps, mostly having to do with configuration issues (duh!) and particularly with treating SQLite like a black box. But I digress...

I have been made aware of two products that address the "personal cloud" market. They are "WD My Cloud" personal cloud storage from Western Digital, and "CloudBox" from LaCie. Given that—ceteris paribus—storage is storage, the winners and losers in this market will be determined by how good the accompanying software is, both in terms of functionality and security.

I have been putting off some work for the past couple of days, so it's time to buckle down and get it done today. I also have a bunch of maintenance stuff to do and some more junk to get rid of.

Cheers...

[1] If memory serves, several years ago, after having assured customers of the security of its storage, Dropbox was forced to admit that such security was based on a company policy against employees browsing through customer files, as opposed to, say, encrypted storage.