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Comparison of storage clouds
Cloud Basics
In this article, I'll look at three different storage clouds: Dropbox, ownCloud, and Cloud Station (Table 1). The well-known Dropbox [1], was a pioneer of third-party hosted NAS memory. It was followed, for example, by the Strato HiDrive and Ubuntu One, to name only two. ownCloud [2], a software solution, makes it possible to set up a similar service on local hardware. This solution would recommend itself, for example, if you have concerns about the safety, reliability, or performance of a third-party host. In this variation, everything remains under your control, with the server in your own computer room.
Table 1
Three Storage Clouds in Comparison
| Feature | ownCloud | Dropbox | Synology Cloud Station |
| Version | 4.0.1 | – | Beta |
| Documentation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual | Installation Guide | No | No, one page in the DSM manual |
| Wiki, | |||
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