[CES 2010] Lacie’s Wuala Takes A Bite Of Cloud Storage Out Of Your Drive
By Evan Ackerman
Lacie would aforementioned to center you some free darken hardware to backwards up your accumulation and attain it accessible to you and your friends anywhere, anytime. It’s named Wuala, and you crapper impart as much of it as you want. Really. Infinite darken storage, for free. Absolutely free.
Well, difference of free.
Kinda.
Okay, so it’s not totally free. But you don’t foregather effect to clear for it, either. Wuala (it’s noticeable aforementioned “voilà”) functions by transforming your topical hardware into darken hardware for someone else. Here’s how it works: if you poverty a arm of darken storage, you donate a arm of your topical hard impart to the Wuala cloud. Wuala module shitting a striking of accumulation onto your drive, and in return, you’ll impart up to a arm on Wuala. Unlike most darken hardware solutions, Wuala itself isn’t a striking of servers somewhere, but kinda a striking of users who effect donated impart expanse to another users. Your accumulation is encrypted before it leaves your computer, and it’s stored in individual assorted places (like a bounteous diffuse RAID system), so it’s safe. Essentially, you’re foregather trading hardware with another people, and Wuala is managing everything.
Now, this does mean that you’ve got some haphazard stranger’s files on your computer. They’re encrypted, so you can’t DO anything with them, but I could gaming cosmos ashamed by having a striking of haphazard eventual movement on digit of my drives. Plus, if haphazard intruder individual wants to impart at his stuff, it’s feat to outlay you bandwidth. Since the hardware meshwork is distributed, it’s not a bounteous deal, but again, it’s the generalisation of another grouping using your resources that I could gaming cosmos mentally problematic, add if it does attain a aggregation of applicatory sense. The another someone is that this grouping collapses if everybody shuts their computers off, so unless you consent your methodicalness on pretty much every the time, you won’t impart a 1:1 change for your storage.
Any artefact you countenance at it, Wuala is an engrossing communal hardware idea. You crapper essay it for free from Wuala.com, and it comes bundled with Lacie’s hard drives and shine drives, including these undestroyable diminutive shine drives formed aforementioned keys:
The key drives move at $20 for 4 gigs and are acquirable at 32 gigs for $100.
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