Cloud storage era: Does entity storage really die?

At present, the concept of the most fire is the cloud, including PCs, mobile phones and even digital cameras and other manufacturers have their own equipment and the cloud link. In particular, in the upcoming 802.11AC Gigabit Wireless network environment, more and more users in the minds of the idea that the future is stored in the cloud, we also need physical storage? In the cloud storage age, does entity storage really die?

Cloud storage Theory: Free and quick to share

Cloud storage represents the future trend, with more and more terminal devices beginning to support cloud storage, many PCs even put storage devices directly in the cloud, including operating systems and http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/17181.html " > Office software is read from the cloud. In particular, now 600Mbps of 802.11n equipment will be available, 802.11AC Gigabit wireless standards will be developed, 4GB LTE network in the high voice of the environment, restricting the development of cloud storage high-speed wireless network bottlenecks will be slowly resolved.

Looking at the current environment, more and more devices are starting to support cloud storage, and the hottest example is Apple's icloud, which can read cloud data at different Apple terminals, and now many PC vendors are starting to install clients on their IT products uniformly, Acer's cloud.fi will be able to read speeds across the same brand of devices, including mobile phones and tablets. And look at the network application of a large number of Jinshan network disk and QQ network applications, we can feel cloud storage has become the climate.

What's more, now the cloud storage features have file sharing functions, such as the Jinshan network with download address sharing functions, and this also fits a lot of users to exchange and share data psychology, which is obviously traditional entity storage difficult to do.

Solid storage theory: secure and large capacity

Entity storage has been accompanied by the growth of devices such as PCs and digital. Cloud storage does look beautiful, but there are still many problems with cloud storage. First, the transmission speed and stability of the network are not as local storage. Although the Gigabit wireless network will slowly become a reality, but the stability of the wireless network is always not reliable local storage, not to mention that many of the international brand to provide cloud storage PC manufacturers are set up in foreign countries, transmission speed is not flattering.

Second, security should not be overlooked. A lot of cloud storage is free, but let everyone put their own more private photos on top, many users will hesitate, and from the network collected data, many small network has closed down, data can not be restored, but for some large companies who can say that the network disk business will not stop it.

Third, in the face of large 3D games, high-definition video and other large data exchange applications, the cloud provides data fluency in any case can not match the physical storage, for some of the more picky user disk arrays or preferred;

4th, although the cloud storage is free, but the capacity is limited, such as Apple's icloud only 5GB space, Jinshan network disk only 10GB more space, more capacity of the space need to pay extra. In contrast to physical storage, the entity stores the same price can buy more capacity, and now many hard disk manufacturers have introduced wireless-enabled NAS devices, such as Seagate GoFlex Satellite, enjoy wireless data exchange is easy.

Entity storage is the source

Although there are many cloud storage devices, cloud storage has many advantages over physical storage. But in my view, the biggest problem with cloud storage is the commonality between different cloud storage devices, that is to say, the data stored on Apple icloud can not be read from Asus ' WebStorage, and the cloud storage solution for the array makes data management more difficult. What's more, for any cloud data storage and exchange needs to be done on the physical storage device, these storage devices, whether desktop or all-in-one, are essential.

Because the most high-end tablet or mobile phone, its storage capacity is always unable to compete with the physical storage, to store more content, you must transfer data to the physical storage for backup, which ultimately determines that the cloud storage can only play a supporting role, and physical storage is the source.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)