I have been watching Space Monkey for a while... I love the concept of local-to-your-home-network storage made easy to use and easy to share anywhere, even on d

I have been watching Space Monkey for a while... I love the concept of local-to-your-home-network storage made easy to use and easy to share anywhere, even on devices outside your home network. This easily beats any cloud service when it comes to synchronizing speed because I can sync at 1 Gbit/s on my GbE network, vs. the ~10 Mbit/s uplink of my cable Internet. There is also Pogoplug [1] which is a superior idea IMHO: the user provides his own USB hard drive(s). This reduces the price of the device and gives more space flexibility: you can connect any size and any number(!) of drives via a USB hub. There is another company doing something similar to Pogoplug, but I cannot remember their name at the moment. Of course the downside of Pogoplug is that there is no backup. But for my own needs, I would prefer Pogoplug's trade-off (unlimited storage & no backup & no constant Internet traffic) compared to Space Monkey (1TB limit & automatic backup & constant ~400kbit/s of traffic background to the SpaceMonkey distributed network). [1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/5/2910802/pogoplug-series-4-review http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/5/2910802/pogoplug-series-4-r... (I link to a review because the company's main website does not do a good job of describing the product: http://pogoplug.com/devices http://pogoplug.com/devices)