Space Monkey, the American start-up that 1TB cloud storage for $ 10 per month, on 17 april, a kickstarter will be started to $ 100,000 for the project. Now is already double the amount raised.
Space Monkey uses a local network drive and the bittorrentprotocol. Subscribers of the company received a 2TB network drive, of which 1TB is not accessible. Data stored on the hard drive is in 40 pieces broken and via bittorrent copied to other Space Monkey drives. The pieces consist of twenty parity pieces and twenty of erasure coded pieces, which in forty different places to be stored, reports Gizmodo. In this way, Space Monkey and no data center required to the cloud storage to offer. Moreover, the distribution of the data blocks, the security of the data. If there are multiple Space Monkey-drives fail, then twenty data blocks enough to hold all the data to recover.
The speed of the cloud storage to ensure, wants, Space Monkey, that the data as much as possible within the network of the same isp to be shared, therefore, not only would the speed be higher, but also lower cost. The data within the home network via the smb and dlna protocol to be approached. For smartphones, there is an Android app available and there could also be a iOS app in the making. A web interface should provide access from outside the home network.
Space Monkey has been working since 2012 on the project, but it seems that the company the network drives now will really continue to deliver. People that the Kickstarter project with $ 99 or more supports, to get their network in July 2013 will be sent to you.
