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Transporter Sync puts external HDDs in your own private cloud

Transporter Sync puts external HDDs in your own private cloud
The new Transporter Sync device
The new Transporter Sync device
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The new Transporter Sync device

The market for cloud storage has ballooned rather quickly. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that SkyDrive had hit the 250 million user mark and that was followed not long after by Dropbox announcing its 175 millionth user. The explosion in popularity of cloud storage has naturally led to increased concerns about security, however, creating an opportunity that Connected Data gladly exploited with its Transporter device and, now, the Transporter Sync.

In essence, the Transporter is an external hard-drive that connects to your home network and allows users to access their files online, forgoing the need to use a public cloud storage service. The Transporter Sync differs in that users attach their own separate external hard-drive upon which cloud properties are then bestowed. The Sync allows for drives of up to 4 TB to be attached and, as with its older brother, users can easily access their documents, photos, videos and music via Android, iPhone and iPad apps.

Aside from its security benefit, the Transporter Sync also offers an attractive cost proposition. Where most paid cloud storage services require an ongoing subscription (above and beyond their free offerings), the Sync is available for a one-off cost of US$99 in the US or £89 in the UK.

"Families and businesses are finding it more and more difficult to synchronize data across all of their computers and mobile devices," says Geoff Barrall, CEO and Founder of Connected Data, when explaining the thinking behind the new addition to the company's product line-up. "With Transporter Sync, we provide an affordable and simple way for them to protect, share and access what matters most, with total privacy, a low one-time price and no hidden monthly fees."

The Transporter Sync can be used as a stand-alone device, or with other Transporters as a private network and is available now in the US, with other markets to follow within the next few weeks.

The following video gives a brief overview of the Transporter Sync.

Sources: Transporter, Dropbox Blog, Windows Blog

5 comments
5 comments
Gary McMurray
yeah but the copywrite extremists will still make it illegal
Ross Jenkins
That looks very dodgy... also stored... on our servers... but we won't look at your files...
phissith
So this is like Nas storage, but $99 a peice.
Threesixty
Remember the old days when all your stuff resided on your hard drive or on CD's and DVD's? It was your stuff all paid for or created by you. Few could steal it unless they broke in and physically stole it.
The Cloud came into being because of advances in the 'Net'. The cloud was trustworthy and trusted, but governments have destroyed that trust using paper, ink, keyboard taps, and exhaled breath.
If Transporter Sync addresses these problems then it must be good.
dave be
one of a number of the same gadgets that have been released in the last while Another is the 'plug' now renamed (but I dont remember what the new name is). It was a successful indigogo project and does almost exactly the same thing.