Just bought a Cloudbox. Installation post will follow
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 10:12 pmHi!
I just bought online a LaCie cloudbox, and I expect it will arrive here by the end of this week. I was undecided beetween Seagate Central, WD My Cloud and LaCie Cloudbox. WD My Cloud 3TB is about 175€, with a nice web-interface and pretty hackable. Seagate Central 3TB is cheaper, about 150€, but for now no one has been able to find a toolchain to compile things, so its hackability is limited. Then a saw a discount on LaCie Cloudbox 3TB, 127€ disk + 10€ shipping, and looking around I came here and saw that "things can be done", so I bought it.
The Seagate and the WD have an USB port, so you can connect things like a printer or an usb disk to expand the capacity (or more interestingly, to give some redundancy to some data in the NAS), that's a downside for LaCie because it doesn't have any. And the web interface seems more limited (and not so pretty :P) than the other two. For instance, their web interface has a movie player that streams media from the NAS directly in your browser, so you can stream a movie just visiting the webinterface. But all the functionalities I've seen in this firmware are more than enough for any geek :) And that's just the beginning, as you can do lots of things with python! Maybe I can add some media player to the web interface in the future! :) Anyway, this firmware is GREAT. Thanks for your outstanding work, it's amazing... you rock :punk :punk
So when my drive gets here I'll try to follow the instructions and install the firmware. I've read the other two threads, so I have an idea of the problems I'll be facing, and hopefully I'll solve them.
"Cut the crap, you're talking too much"
Ok, ok, I'll be back in a few days either posting the results of my installation or asking for help.
Cheers!
Tomàs
I just bought online a LaCie cloudbox, and I expect it will arrive here by the end of this week. I was undecided beetween Seagate Central, WD My Cloud and LaCie Cloudbox. WD My Cloud 3TB is about 175€, with a nice web-interface and pretty hackable. Seagate Central 3TB is cheaper, about 150€, but for now no one has been able to find a toolchain to compile things, so its hackability is limited. Then a saw a discount on LaCie Cloudbox 3TB, 127€ disk + 10€ shipping, and looking around I came here and saw that "things can be done", so I bought it.
The Seagate and the WD have an USB port, so you can connect things like a printer or an usb disk to expand the capacity (or more interestingly, to give some redundancy to some data in the NAS), that's a downside for LaCie because it doesn't have any. And the web interface seems more limited (and not so pretty :P) than the other two. For instance, their web interface has a movie player that streams media from the NAS directly in your browser, so you can stream a movie just visiting the webinterface. But all the functionalities I've seen in this firmware are more than enough for any geek :) And that's just the beginning, as you can do lots of things with python! Maybe I can add some media player to the web interface in the future! :) Anyway, this firmware is GREAT. Thanks for your outstanding work, it's amazing... you rock :punk :punk
So when my drive gets here I'll try to follow the instructions and install the firmware. I've read the other two threads, so I have an idea of the problems I'll be facing, and hopefully I'll solve them.
"Cut the crap, you're talking too much"
Ok, ok, I'll be back in a few days either posting the results of my installation or asking for help.
Cheers!
Tomàs