Cu cât aveţi mai multe dispozitive pe care le folosiţi în mod uzual, cu atât vă aveţi nevoie de mai mult spaţiu, atât acasă cât şi în deplasare. Un cloud personal ar fi perfect.
For a few years I have been using a time capsules at home, an Apple router that integrates a 2TB hard drive.In addition, at a USB port of that time capsules I also connected a second 1.5TB hard drive.In total I have 3.5TB of space in the network that I can easily access from the laptop, tablet, smartphone, HTPC etc.In theory it is a nose or Network Attached Storage, a storage solution that is in the local network and can be used in a scenario amalgam.In practice, however, things have been significantly simplified now, compared to 5 or 10 years ago when I first heard of such a gadget.
It is true that the term itself continues to seem complicated and feared, even for those who believe they have an affinity for the IT.In reality, however, such a solution is more useful now than ever.In a time when we shoot with the phone at Full HD or 4K resolution, we have the entire collection of photos on the tablet and most of the activity we spend on an ultrabook with an SSD of 128 or 256GB, the storage is moreproblematic as ever.When it comes to a laptop, we can smoothly use an external hard drive, but the same hard drive cannot be easily connected to your smartphone or tablet.
Moreover, we have passed in 2015 and we all want to run away from threads, even if they are very short, as in the case of an external hard drive.In the context where in a regular house there are 3-4 phones, two tablets, two laptops or maybe even a desktop or gaming console, normally, all of which must have access to the same volume of information.I am not talking here about the phone book that synchronizes with Gmail or iCloud.I am referring to a bushy collection of movies and music, a bookstore made up of tens of thousands of holidays or documents that you do not allow you to lose if you get rid of your laptop or the phone is stolen.
Scenaries for a personal cloud - backup
The less space you have on the laptop, phone or tablet, the more the importance of the files stored on them grows.Over time, you will realize that you get to have only the photos and movies that are very important to you on your smartphone and the documents you interact very often on ultrabook.In such a situation, you urgently need a very well-developed backup system.No one thinks he can escape his phone in water or a laptop can be stolen.But these are the scenarios as possible.
Fortunately, when you have a few TB of space in the local network, it is very easy that every day or every week to save your favorite documents on the phone or, in the case of a laptop, to make a completely incremental backupcomplete.In the case of a system with OS X, Time Machine, the utility included in the operating system, does a very good job when it comes to backups.The same things can be said about the backup and restore system included in Windows.The biggest difference between them is that a poppy backup can be restored on any MacBook, IMAC or MAC mini, even if the latter no longer has an operating system installed.If you do not love your backup system included in Windows, you can call without problems for many other free utilities such.
When it comes to backups on phones or tablets, it depends on how important you have on those devices.If you have Apple devices, you can, for example, make iTunes backups and then copy them from your PC (c: \ users \ username '\ appdata \ apple computer \ mobilesync \ backup \) in the local network onYour little personal cloud.The same is true for Android, with the mention that you have to use other applications, such as Kies for Samsung phones and tablets, then access the location of safety children, My Documents for example.If it is only movable movies and photos, through a File Explorer application for iOS or ES File Explorer for Android you can transfer them directly to the nose, without having to resort to a computer as intermediary.
Pentru transfer rapid de fişiere cross-platform am creat un tutorial detaliat în urmă cu ceva timp Cum să-ţi accesezi fişierele de pe PC prin iPad, iPhone şi Android. În principiu este foarte probabil să vă puteţi accesa cloud-ul personal de pe mobil şi când vă aflaţi în celălalt capăt al lumi, doar că în acel context pentru a vă transfera filmele sau fotografiile s-ar putea să fiţi nevoiţi să folosiţi o aplicaţie gen mydlink Access NAS pentru iOS sau Android.
Scenaries for personal cloud - severely multimedia
With the passage of time it is inevitable to acquire a generous collection of movies and music, whether they are in DVD, MKV, MP3, MP4 or Divx format..In an ideal world, they should be able to be accessed from anywhere or at least from anything, whether it is a tablet, a game console, an HTPC or a dedicated multimedia content player type boxe boxe..Basically, as long as a device has the opportunity to connect to the local network in the house should have the opportunity to access the entire collection of movies and music.
For such a scenario, a nose is ideal.By default, the nose is visible in the network like any other system.Access it and reach the hard drive or hard drives inside.In theory, you can define names of users with whom to access only certain directories or, if applicable, partitions.However, given that it is not a corporate environment, it would be ideal for any device to be able to access all the information without too many headaches.Here the equation is significantly simplified.Basically, any nose, hard disk router connected to USB or integrated hard disk router, share your file collection through a protocol entitled CIFS, specific to Windows, NFS systems, specific to Linux or AFP systems, dedicated mainlyMAC access.In most situations, if you can choose, you should opt for Windows Cifs because it is recognized by the other platforms or devices.
În ceea ce priveşte consolele de jocuri, precum Xbox sau PS3, deşi acestea pot accesa locaţii din reţea pentru a rula conţinut multimedia de pe ele, partajarea acelor locaţii ar trebui realizată prin UPnP sau Universal Plug and Play. Partea bună cu acest standard este că asigură compatibilitatea şi cu diverse Smart TV-uri sau playere dedicate de conţinut cu conectivitate la reţea. Special pentru posesorii de dispozitive Apple, de multe ori, în pagina web de configurare a unui NAS veţi găsi şi iTunes Library. Acea bifă este gândită pentru cei care au unul sau mai multe Apple TV-uri în casă şi le folosesc pentru ascultat muzică din reţea. În acel caz particular trebuie însă să vă autentificaţi cu acelaşi nume de utilizator Apple şi parolă atât pe Apple TV sau în iTunes pe un PC, cât şi pe NAS.
If you use most of the time a laptop or desktop, regardless of the operating system, it is worth considering, if you did not already know that a certain location in the network can be mounted as a local hard drive, to be accessibleeasily inside your favorite programs.Basically, those 2TB movies and music you have on an external hard drive connected to the router can have the letter Z: In My Computer.All you have to do is have that network location in a Windows Explorer window, right click on it and opt for MAP Network Drive.In the new window it is enough to define the letter you want associated with that partition and confirm the choice with a click on OK.
How do you access a personal cloud via the Internet
Whether it is a dedicated nose or a router with internal hard disk or external hard disk connected to it on USB, all this can be accessed via the Internet.We are not talking here about a PC that you use as a file server and which is permanently on.That can be accessed very simply through Team Viewer, even for file transfer.
Anumite NAS-uri dedicate, precum modelele mai recente de la D-Link din seria ShareCenter pot fi foarte uşor accesate prin internet, atât de pe un PC, cât şi de pe dispozitivele voastre mobile cu iOS sau Android, prin aplicaţii dedicate. Dacă aveţi însă un NAS mai bătrân, nu vă faceţi griji. Este suficient să aflaţi adresa IP a acestuia din reţeaua locală şi să o înaintaţi către internet, fie trecând-o la secţiunea DMZ din pagina de configurare a router-ului, fie optând pentru varianta cu Port Forwarding. În primul caz, dacă aveţi un IP static prin intermediul căruia vă conectaţi la internet, gen 87.231.256.72, atunci când veţi accesa dintr-o fereastră de My Computer, oriunde din lume, acea adresă veţi fi întâmpinat de o fereastră de autentificare, după care vă veţi putea accesa fişierele ca şi cum aţi fi acasă. În cazul variantei cu Port Forwarding, în aceeaşi fereastră de My Computer trebuie introdus IP-ul vostru, urmat de numărul portul definit anterior, ex. 87.231.256.72:2754.
The above variants are the easiest to implement.For an increased level of security and if your nose or router supports such a thing, you can opt for a FTP server.If you have a Windows PC as a file server, you can easily turn it into a FTP server through a Filezilla utility.Also, a dedicated nose operating system, as Freenas includes such options.The next level of security you can opt for if you work with sensitive files is called VPN or Virtual Private Network.However, this is not the simplest method when we talk about an ordinary user who only wants to access his holidays from anywhere.
Devices required for a personal cloud
As I said in the introduction, concepts such as nose, storage in network or personal cloud became much easier in 2015, than a while ago.This reality is partly due to devices meant to be much more intuitive and easier to use.They are not necessarily the cheapest, but given that you buy them once and use them five years or, with a little luck, ten years, the initial investment is justified.
ASUS RT-AC66U is an ultra quick router compatible with the latest standards of wire communications or without.It has four ports of Ethernet network and a fifth for the Internet connection, all Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbps).On the wireless, it reaches maximum speeds of 1750Mbps (450 + 1300 Mbps) due to the fact that it is dual band (it operates on 2.4 and 5 GHz) and is compatible with the IEEE 802.11 A/B/G/N/AC.It has two USB ports and can be used both for sharing a hard drive or printer in the local network or via the Internet, as well as for USB 3G/4G Internet modems.His advanced functions include VPN Pass Through, UPNP, DDNS and Firewall.Has a purchase price of 660 lei.
Apple Time Capsule 2TB A1470 is the solution of Apple meant to function both as wireless ieee 802.11ac, as well as a nose, incorporating a 2TB hard drive.In addition to four gigabit Ethernet ports, a USB port is found on its back that can still host a second external hard drive or printer.In terms of wireless connectivity, it is dual band and can generate two different wireless networks on 2.4 and 5GHz.To configure it, Apple has created an airport utility that is free for PCs, but is native to any Mac, iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.MAC users also benefit that they can use it for Time Machine backups, the utility included in OS X.In any other circumstances, the 2TB can be accessed without problems from any system with Windows, Linux or OS X, any smartphone, tablet or dedicated player.The 2TB version costs 1350 lei.
D-Link Sharecenter DNS-320L is a last generation dedicated nose from D-Link that can host two hard drives.These can be configured in JBOD mode (just a bunch of disks), raid 0, for increased speed, or RAID 1 for backup and redundancy.It is very easy to configure.It integrates into the local network through a Gigabit Ethernet port and also has a USB port that you can use to connect a second hard drive or to share a printer.Can be used as a UPNP server to be accessed from any PC or game console.But his biggest advantage seems to me to be given by how your data can be accessed from anywhere on the Internet.After creating an account on mydink.Com and you have authenticated with the same username and password on the NAS configuration page, any movie, picture, document or file of any type can be viewed, copied or deleted through the MyDLink Access-NAS or Mobile applicationUsing web page www.mydlink.com.
The moment to move on to storage in the network
About NAS, smart routers and cloud computing have been written and many articles will be written.In the meantime, however, a very important feature of this spectrum has changed.The most important aspect is related to the facility with which such devices can be integrated into your existing network.Secondly, the amalgam of gadgets you have in the house must have access to a centralized location with all your important documents.It is redundant that in 2015, when you are constantly accessing an internet connection, you have the same pictures, the same movies and the same documents on three or four different devices, when you can have them in one place and, from there, themYou can access with an almost non -existent waiting time.