Space Monkey: a terabyte NAS with backup to a P2P cloud for $ 10 per month
Space Monkey is at the same time a home NAS with a volume of 1 terabyte, backup all its contents to the cloud and access to it from anywhere in the world for $ 10 a month and a P2P network node, which is the cloud that works without centralized data centers.
Last March, Space Monkey received $ 750,000 in investment and announced the start of closed alpha testing. It took about a year to run in iron and software and to create a P2P network core consisting of devices belonging mainly to the company's employees, investors, and everyone who managed to subscribe and pre-order. Now the Space Monkey test network has several hundred devices worldwide and is ready for a massive influx of participants.
The public launch of Space Monkey took place just at Kickstarter . The first 500 units can be ordered at a special price of $ 99 - this price includes an annual subscription and a guarantee. In the hour since the beginning of the campaign, half of the 500 devices were purchased at a reduced price ( UPD: and an hour later, all 500 were bought). However, the regular price of $ 119 is not much higher.
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One of the reasons for the creators of the Space Monkey startup was the alarm about the growing dependence of people on giant corporate data centers. Increasingly, there are devices that are useless by themselves and serve only to access data on the servers of the manufacturer. The data itself, even if they are considered to be owned by the user, is actually completely dependent on the will of the corporation. In his blog, Space Monkey quotes Steve Wozniak's words about cloud services:
The Space Monkey network consists almost entirely of client devices. Under the direct control of the company there are only a few control nodes that serve to coordinate the network. Each client is a NAS with built-in HDD-drive, on which the user can access 1 terabyte. There is a client software for Windows, Linux and OS X.
One of the working prototypes of the drive Space Monkey.
Due to the use of a decentralized network, we managed to get rid of the overhead costs associated with the concentration of drives in one large data center - neither cooling, nor backup power, nor a thick channel is needed. A comparable amount of regular cloud storage costs about $ 1,000. Naturally, Space Monkey is suitable only for those who have a thick unlimited Internet. The creators claim that their devices try to occupy the channel for synchronization and requests from other clients only when it is free from user traffic.
Last March, Space Monkey received $ 750,000 in investment and announced the start of closed alpha testing. It took about a year to run in iron and software and to create a P2P network core consisting of devices belonging mainly to the company's employees, investors, and everyone who managed to subscribe and pre-order. Now the Space Monkey test network has several hundred devices worldwide and is ready for a massive influx of participants.
The public launch of Space Monkey took place just at Kickstarter . The first 500 units can be ordered at a special price of $ 99 - this price includes an annual subscription and a guarantee. In the hour since the beginning of the campaign, half of the 500 devices were purchased at a reduced price ( UPD: and an hour later, all 500 were bought). However, the regular price of $ 119 is not much higher.
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One of the reasons for the creators of the Space Monkey startup was the alarm about the growing dependence of people on giant corporate data centers. Increasingly, there are devices that are useless by themselves and serve only to access data on the servers of the manufacturer. The data itself, even if they are considered to be owned by the user, is actually completely dependent on the will of the corporation. In his blog, Space Monkey quotes Steve Wozniak's words about cloud services:
“I think that in the next five years we will face terrible problems. In the clouds you really do not own anything. And you yourself subscribed to this, without even looking into the user agreement ... I want to feel that my things belong to me. Many people think: “Yes, I have everything stored in a computer there,” but in fact, the more we transfer everything to the Internet, to the clouds, the less control we have ”.
The Space Monkey network consists almost entirely of client devices. Under the direct control of the company there are only a few control nodes that serve to coordinate the network. Each client is a NAS with built-in HDD-drive, on which the user can access 1 terabyte. There is a client software for Windows, Linux and OS X.
One of the working prototypes of the drive Space Monkey.
Due to the use of a decentralized network, we managed to get rid of the overhead costs associated with the concentration of drives in one large data center - neither cooling, nor backup power, nor a thick channel is needed. A comparable amount of regular cloud storage costs about $ 1,000. Naturally, Space Monkey is suitable only for those who have a thick unlimited Internet. The creators claim that their devices try to occupy the channel for synchronization and requests from other clients only when it is free from user traffic.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/177055/
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