D-Link Announces 16 TB Home Cloud NAS

By Wolfgang Gruener
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D-Link's latest NAS comes with a built-in web file server and a secure FTP server to provide file access over the Internet.

The Cloud Storage 4000 can be equipped with up to fourth 3.5-inch HDDs for a total capacity of 16 TB of storage space to cover the needs of a home cloud solution. According to the manufacturer, the device can hook up to D-Link's cloud cameras and turn into a network video recorder and playback device.

It also creates a portal that can be accessed via iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Microsoft Mobile OS products. Filesharing is enabled via the integrated ShareCenter application. Two-way data syncing is supported as well.

The NAS is available for $450.

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14 Comments Comment from the forums
  • sixdegree
    Personal cloud is really a neat idea as it circumvent the need for big storage on mobile devices. But as long as data cap exist, cloud storage solution like this will never be widely used by home user.
    But then, if you can afford a $450 Cloud NAS plus extra hundreds for the disks, then unlimited data plan price is no longer a concern to you.
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  • idroid
    who actually uses that much storage?
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  • Stryter
    idroidwho actually uses that much storage?
    A porn connoisseur, clearly. ;)
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  • kcorp2003
    idroidwho actually uses that much storage?
    you sure you want the cliche answer to your question? PORN!
    lol

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  • freggo
    idroidwho actually uses that much storage?
    We do A/V production (no, not THAT kind...).
    Filling up 16TB is unfortunately no problem if you are shooting low compression HD.
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  • cumi2k4
    As someone that started to look nas solution for home server, was wondering about what's the connection speed and how many users can access it without losing speed both on the disk & network side? And for $450, what's the upside of this product vs. homebuilt such as freenas (other than initial time needed to learn to set up the freenas, of course)
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  • alidan
    idroidwho actually uses that much storage?well... lets first go with porn
    than lets also go high res raw photo storage
    lets also add in uncompressed files (textures and such, for useing in photos)
    lets also go in with rip and encode all the movies i own, so thats 700mb to 2gb a movie right there, and a large collection... that can be high up there
    games and making backup copies of all your games, in case they ever break
    and lets lastly go into just video production, whether you capture from a webcam/games/or full low/uncompressed hd, that crap takes up a crap ton of space no matter what.

    and all that is without going into illegal things you can do with it. which i believe you were alluding to.
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  • back_by_demand
    idroidwho actually uses that much storage?My Bluray collection has been neatly backed up so I can watch it through the network on XBMC, that's a lot of storage space, this could suit me perfectly, 300 movies hovering around 6Tb already and i'm always going to kepp getting more
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  • aviral
    I was planning to create a cloud server for my home and this solves my purposes without any problem....
    I would like to get it one. :D
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  • junixophobia
    back_by_demandMy Bluray collection has been neatly backed up so I can watch it through the network on XBMC, that's a lot of storage space, this could suit me perfectly, 300 movies hovering around 6Tb already and i'm always going to kepp getting more
    Go with this, its wayyyyy lot better.
    http://www.qnap.com/useng/index.php?sn=69&lang=en-us
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