Consumer network storage market in the end it is possible? Possible, and the potential market value is significant.
Some time ago, some of my colleagues to buy the mobile hard disk or digital partner, because they have a lot of photos, music and video files need to be stored. However, these external
Storage devices in use around half a year later, they almost are not working for them very valuable information this way forever lost!
This situation is probably very common right. For example, general manager of Intel's Storage Group Hans Geyer had a similar experience. He stored on your hard drive all the photos of his newborn, but after three years of hard drive damage, these pictures no longer possible to remake this evaporated.
I began to worry about this from their own mobile hard disk. In several forums and netizens explore ways to protect data, the conclusion is simply no good way. The most secure (and most stupid) way is to buy a few hard drives, at least make two copies, not yet the case, engraved on a CD or by regular DVD.
So we would naturally think, where the industrial network storage devices, such as NAS devices can be used to reduce the threshold for consumers, it will create a new storage market and growth points? This possibility does exist.
For example, in the Intel IDF Conference held this month, the company launched a product aimed at SMEs NAS-SS4000-E. Geyer statement in accordance with the general manager, although this product is not intended to be the first consumer product, but for now, the product is very suitable for some high-end home network users (with more than one PC, and its digital home entertainment equipment needs regular networking ) needs.
Digital home, digital entertainment, as well as me and my colleagues have a more urgent this storage requirements and data protection needs of individual users is gradually increasing, if such a market with non-Intel mainstream storage vendors have seen, then mainstream storage vendors to see more clearly.
I once heard that last year, EMC launched in North America, a NAS box for the individual, the price is only about 1000 U.S. dollars. Since the beginning of this year has been more and more data storage vendor in the testing of such products, the price from 200 dollars to 2300 U.S. dollars range, maximum capacity up to 2TB, is the most high-end PC hard disk capacity of 8 times.
NAS to the consumer market, its biggest obstacle is not the price, because if there are many like us, as mentioned above, the irreversible loss of data (cost) has a stake in it, then the high price some are acceptable, let alone when market opens, the price can be expected rapid decline.
NAS popularity in the consumer market, afraid that there are major technical obstacles, because the data protection generally have achieved through the RAID array, and let consumers configure their own single-disc or multi-disk array, which is difficult to imagine of.
In addition, NAS network storage like network sharing must be possible to give full play to its effectiveness, it has not yet started for the home networking market, the use of such products is a bit ahead.
Some storage vendors are optimistic that this year's summer there will be a consumer NAS sales peak, but some manufacturers are not optimistic that next year at least be possible to start this market. But anyway, this market does exist, and the potential volume is significant.
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