Introduction and design
Not to be outdone by arch-rival storage company Western Digital, the Personal Cloud is Seagate’s answer to the WD MyCloud, a NAS that makes it as simple as possible to access your stored movies, pictures, music and documents remotely.
The Personal Cloud can be used to stream video or music to a number of devices, from smartphones and tablets, to Roku, Google Chromecast and a number of smart TVs. It also supports local file system backup including Apple’s Time Machine.
The Personal Cloud is sold in a number of configurations, all of which come as units with either one or two disks, indicated by the phrase ‘2-Bay’ added to the end of the product name. There are no diskless versions available.
Capacities range from 3TB to 8TB, and are priced fairly reasonably, from £119.99 in the UK for the single-bay 3TB version (in the US this capacity goes for around $186, or $260 in Australia) and the 8TB (2 x 4TB) version goes for around £350 ($454 in the US, $633 in Australia).
Design
With mainstream users in mind, Seagate has tried …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac