The Premise:

So unRaid takes different drives and fuses them into a single repository allowing us to see them all as just a single resource without having to think about which drive has the data. At this point I am ignoring pareity protection.

 

The Set-up:

I've noticed that there are a lot of free cloud services out there, google just released Drive, Dropbox has been around for a while, Pogo has something, Box, Amazon Cloud storage, etc etc etc ...

 

The Reveal:

What we users now need is a Cloud Storage Aggregator that lets us push and pull our data via one interface, while in the background the aggregator decides which service to store the data on / retrieve it from. 

 

That way instead of having 10 different free cloud storage services at 5GB each ... we can have a single free storage at 50GB total.

 

and of course

 

The Punch-Line:

I expect to see this in UnRaid V6 ... in about two weeks 

While this does sound nice, it also sounds like it could somehow be against the TOS of one of these services, but even if its not, it would have A LOT of dependency on the services, as well as need api's for ease of use.

 

I think something like this would be a very good idea for important documents, but at the same time, if something happened to your server, you'd be stuck searching through all these different clouds to find your data.

 

Interesting idea, to say the least!

I think something like this would be a very good idea for important documents, but at the same time, if something happened to your server, you'd be stuck searching through all these different clouds to find your data.

 

Interesting idea, to say the least!

 

I thought the idea was that if one part of your "RAID in the Cloud" went over, there was redundancy or parity protection (like with unRAID) by using multiple providers to allow data to be recovered and ultimately written elsewhere.  Personally I am a long way from being willing to trust any data to the Cloud that I do not have two copies of under my own control, but something like the idea described could be a step in the right direction.

 

Agreed.  A very interesting idea.

We're talking about terabytes of data here, right?

 

 

We're talking about terabytes of data here, right?

 

Some 'cloud' providers are happy with that either for a cheap price or for the price if you want to pay.

 

You can also layer some technologies onto your own remote storage.

 

Bandwidth costs are going down and connection speeds up.

 

Perfectly feasible.

 

Certainly in the next decade I can see home media servers being a non-requirement. Either from the increase in streaming media or just because why build locally when you can give it to google for $10 a month.

 

The boom time for things like unraid in the home space is right now where the gap between these things still exists whilst the demand has rocketed.

 

 

Backblaze: "3/5/10 – Largest single customer restore to date: 6,900 GB"

 

http://blog.backblaze.com/2012/04/20/backblaze-turns-5-a-startup-grows-up/

 

Cost: $3.96 a month (for 2 years).

Well really this was all a bit tongue in cheek, at least in so far as even considering Lime Tech to do it.  And for sure, even as a joke, it was not meant as a mirror or an unRAID server in reference to the "terabytes of data" comment by opentoe

 

But in some ways I am surprised no one has come up with an all-in-one client for all these different free services, much like for IM Chat clients (Pidgin anyone?).  Ignoring that the service owners would likely try to shut it down either legally, or technically via modified API's ... again, much like IM Chat Clients.

 

 

We at Greenleaf have some plans along these lines...stay tuned

We at Greenleaf have some plans along these lines...stay tuned

 

Super duper awesome!!!

Why even make it that complicated and worry about limited space?

 

http://sparkleshare.org/ has been mentioned a little around here and seems to be advancing nicely.

 

http://owncloud.org/ is something I found last week. Seems to be pretty far along with a lot of potential

 

apps available too!

 

I think in translation I just wrote up on this to cover accessing cloud storage: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=26992.0

These guys do what you suggest:

 

http://storagemadeeasy.com/personal/

 

I'm an idiot, see above post.

Fluid- meet xlordnashx

xlordnashx- meet Fluid

 

You guys should talk sometime. 

 

I think in translation I just wrote up on this to cover accessing cloud storage: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=26992.0

These guys do what you suggest:

 

http://storagemadeeasy.com/personal/