LaCie's LaPlug Turns USB Drives into Cloud Storage

[exfileme]

Here's a cool gadget that will share your USB-based drives and printers on a local network, or remotely across the Internet.

LaCie's LaPlug Turns USB Drives into Cloud Storage : Read more

 

[zybch]

So how is this any different from the already out for several years PogoPlug? Hell, my WHS systems can do this too, along with many other current and past NAS-type products.
Of course if this were an apple product it would be hailed and praised as innovative and unique.

 

[Vladislaus]

A single hard drive shared across the net isn't a cloud.

 

[neon871]

On the streaming side, the LaPlug can pump multimedia to devices that are UPnP/DLNA-certified, such as the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, as well as the LaCie LaCinema Classic HD.

This is not a set-top-box, just network storage there for each device would have to browse for the media and that is not pumped or pushed! That must be where the cloud comes in as in the smoke being blow up our a**es! I have a Linksys that allows 2 USB 2.0 HDD's on the network to be shared and I have been using it for years, so this is nothing "knock your socks off" new! Come on Tom your readers aren't stupid!

If LaCie's LaPlug was USB 3.0 then you may have something worth talking about.

 

[eddieroolz]

Didn't we see something like this just a few days ago?

 

[custodian-1]

Nothing new here where's bulldozer

 

[svdb]

What a load of marketing crap. These days you can slap the Cloud word on just about anything.
Hey, my fridge is connected to the web: it's a Cloud storage device!
Well... it's connected and I can put stuff in it...
Bollocks!

 

[halcyon]

Putting the word Cloud next to a product doesn't make it more exciting to me. Makes it sound less exciting with possibly more security issues.

 

[Guest]

set it up for web access go to work then access it . mwalla cload storage.

what did you think god was holding your photos for you