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Originally Posted by kennyc
Let me know what you think after you've used it a bit...
Thanks!
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I got my TonidoPlug in the mail yesterday, and hooked it up to my router, connected a TB USB hard drive to it, and started playing with it. All I have to say is that it works exactly as advertised. I now have access to a private 1 TB cloud that I hold all of the keys (caveat below) to. They advertise that the thing supports a USB hub, and you can plug in multiple hard drives, so that means the limit is however mach storage you’re willing to pay for and however many USB hosts Ubuntu is capable of.
It also presents your drive on the private facing side as Shared Network Attached Storage, which means you can map it as a drive letter and use it as you would use any other drive on any system on your private LAN.
There are apps (clients) for Android, Blackberry, iOS, and can be accessed from any computer via a web interface. The web interface is pretty straight forward, but the Android app UI is a little cumbersome. Defiantly not up to DropBox standards; but what the hey, it works.
One note of caution, when you set up web shares, the default access mode is “everyone”, not knowing this; I set up a share to my entire 1 TB, and sent the URL to my work address. When I got to work this morning I discovered that my entire cloud was wide open to anyone who knew the URL
. I immediatly loged on as admin, set up a guest account and restricted the share to that account. Now it requires a username and password (recommend a strong password) to access the drive. Also be aware that the user name on the guest account is case sensitive.
The caveat to holding the keys is that unless you have a static IP, you will need a dynamic DNS service. Tonido provides such a service, but it will work with
any of the services available on the internet. So they keep your login info (except password) on their Dynamic DNS servers, but all other date is local. Also, if for whatever reason Tonido should fail as a company, you are not dependant on them for Dynamic DNS, you can just subscribe to another service.