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As the article mentions, these are all built around the SheevaPlug (http://plugcomputer.org/). I guess there is enough of a market that these are becoming more and more popular to build and sell. My idea with these is basically a local+cloud storage hybrid: you attach a local drive via USB, but then connect it to AWS and use that as the main storage area. Then the local drive is simply a very large cache. The appeal is that you get "infinite" storage with the speed of a fast NAS drive.


It would be pretty trivial to get Fuse - http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/wiki/FuseOverAmazon - installed on the SheevaPlug, which would give you a mountable "directory" to your S3 account which you could then share on your local network.


Igor, I love that idea of a large AWS cache!


Check this out, it's a commercial version of that: http://www.nasuni.com/


That's it. Except, the model I had in mind was more of a device + software thing. Also, it looks like the product is cool but $300/mo for this? Yikes.


Well, the Nasuni product is aimed at the business, not personal users. There's a variety of cloud-gateway products aimed at home/personal users.


Tell you what: have at it if you'd like. But if you build a business around it and make millions of dollars, do send me one of these :).




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