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Seems like the world is trending away from people owning this kind of hardware. As a consumer I want to be as hands off as possible. Not sure I want to deal wit

• phlux 15y ago
  >Not sure I want to deal with the overhead of putting a server in my house. Interesting username then... But I think that if it is an appliance rather than a server -- this thing is great.
• roc 15y ago
  I'd like to not host this stuff myself as well, but in the meantime I've got a Synology device doing a damn good job for very little time investment and not much money. I don't have to stream my media from the internet, I don't have to leave my PC on, it doesn't draw as much power and it has some reasonable redundancy features. Now my phone, laptop, boxee, etc can all sync from that central store and pull data from it on the fly, at 802.11n or gigE speeds. So I'm not burning battery life waiting on Comcast and burning through my wired and wireless data caps. As long as consumer internet is slow and battery life limited, and particularly as data caps become increasingly common, there's going to be a market opportunity for a local media store that can be used to sync your various devices.