Space Monkey push New cloud storage service: 1TB hard Drive moved Home

Start-up company Space Monkey this summer will launch a new cloud storage Service "Space Monkey", its biggest feature is to apply peer-to-peer concepts to data storage, in the user's home to place 1TB (1000GB) hard disk, allowing users through mobile applications or connected computers for data access.

The true innovation of the service is the application of Peer-to-peer concepts to data storage. Space Monkey for the user to provide 1TB hard disk actual capacity of 2TB, and 1TB is used as a storage of other users of the file, which files like BT is divided into a number of small pieces. When a user needs to download a file remotely, the space monkey connects the user to the nearest peers (that is, other users of the spaces monkey).

There may be concerns about security, but space Monkey says the service is tightly encrypted, and security is unquestionable. In addition, Space Monkey can save costs because the use of bandwidth occurs between users and users, not between users and servers.

The Space Monkey Service will be launched this summer with a cost of $10 a month. Alen Peacock, co-founder of the company, said: "The cost is only half the Dropbox, but the space is 10 times times that of theirs." ”

Industry insiders say, Piccock refers to the Dropbox service price as the highest standard, Dropbox also has free service, so it is not easy to compete with Dropbox for users, but can enjoy a larger space at a lower price, still has a great appeal to users.