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Backups can be easily done via USB, remote encrypted offsites or using a second device for synching and cold standby.
You can always call us during the warranty period - from our experience this rarely happens. Yes we do sell maintenance packages outside the warranty terms. We dispatch technicians and with those maintenance packages you don't need to pay for that.
We use ZFS RAID 5 and while it's a great way to make sure that you can recover from 1/4 drive failures, 2/4 drive losses will be bad.
And yes you're right on the full disk encryption - and this is something we'll be shipping in one of our upcoming releases which happen on a monthly basis.
That's what's driving me (and us)! :) We need to regain control over our own data and become first class citizen in this digital age (and yes also in the monetary aspect of it). Our hypothesis is: if you make it beautiful, easy to use and fun & given a similar feature set, people will go with what gives them more individual freedom. So thank you - for rooting for us!! :)
- 8 Core XEON - 128 GB RAM - up to 50TB of storage with 250GB SSD cache - still passively cooled
https://protonetinc.com/lp/protonet-launches-new-model-priva...
edit: if you know anyone that'd like to try that setup - drop us a line - we'd love to help out!
1. Making backups is really easy - the most simple way is a USB backup, additionally: offsite encrypted and using a second unit to be synched and ready as a cold standby unit.
2. not sure what you mean by that.
3. we're working on this - currently only the synching and cold standby scenario works and is often used by our customers.
Fueled by:
- moores law (massive compute power and storage at cheap prices) - bandwidths growing - new tools and devices that create constant streams of data (smartphones, collaborative & filesharing tools etc.) - commoditization of our most-used online tools (see dropbox) - a desire to have one integrated point of access/control
and a raising awareness of how important it is to own/control our data (caused in part by constant news coming out on hacks, data breaches and how basically data companies are the new oil companies)
Yes, it's a server :)
ps. I'm one of the founders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh_fPsFbgMQ
I recommend watching it to get a feel of how effective he is at this.
> "In an aside, loans made to college kids to get a quality education is not a ridiculous loan on ridiculous terms to people who can't afford them."
I'd like to disagree with you and I believe that a default rate of > 13% (and rising sharply - http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/first-official-three-y...) supports my statement.
> There would be very few people who qualify for student loans if we treated them the same as traditional loans
True, but that is not the problem - the problem is that college and education costs have risen almost exponentially. This problem will certainly not be solved by pumping massive amounts of bad loans into the bank accounts of already overpaid colleges.
The answer is to let these loans default. That's how the lending system should work. No bailouts, but simple defaults.
You as a lender are responsible for factoring in the probability of a default. If you haven't - sucks to be you. Same goes for government loans, e.g. you create an institutionalized Banking system (like the Federal Direct Student loans).
And if you survive the coming mass default (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-28/delinquencies-stude...) - without gov. bailouts - you'll have learned a valuable lesson on lending: Don't give out ridiculous loans on ridiculous terms to people who can't afford them. And rest assured that the education system will find a way to adapt - probably by making education a lot cheaper again.