SSK Portable NAS Wireless Hard Drive. Is this what I need?
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Hi all,
I need to share files from my MacBook Pro at home to
my colleague at his home.
Is this what I need? Anyone use one.
I’m after something with a small form factor and easy to use.
Any advice on either this or something else appreciated.
We do have Dropbox, but find it very slow, delivering and downloading.
Cheers, Mark
I need to share files from my MacBook Pro at home to
my colleague at his home.
Is this what I need? Anyone use one.
I’m after something with a small form factor and easy to use.
Any advice on either this or something else appreciated.
We do have Dropbox, but find it very slow, delivering and downloading.
Cheers, Mark
Ultimately if you're moving files over the internet from your home to his home the limit will be how fast your and your colleague's broadband is.
Have you each gone to fast.com and measured your upload and download speeds and then used that combined with the file size to work out what the fastest possible transfer speed is, and if the bottleneck is your upload or his download?
I suspect that this is more likely to be the bottleneck than how fast Dropbox is.
Have you each gone to fast.com and measured your upload and download speeds and then used that combined with the file size to work out what the fastest possible transfer speed is, and if the bottleneck is your upload or his download?
I suspect that this is more likely to be the bottleneck than how fast Dropbox is.
markbigears said:
Thanks xeny, would this drive be suitable for what I want to do?
Speed dependent
To be direct, if the problem is how fast data goes from your house, or to his house over their respective broadband connection, how do you expect that first copying it to another device (presumably also at your house?) is going to make the broadband connection of either house faster?Speed dependent
Work out what the actual problem is and then work on fixing that, don't buy something in the hope it will help.
I've just googled, am looking at https://www.amazon.co.uk/SSK-Portable-Wireless-Per... , specifically the "Hard Drive Working Mode Introduction( Four Modes)" illustration.
All 4 scenarios in that diagram are talking about use at a single location, nothing about sharing files between different places. On that basis, use to share between two different homes looks a long way from what the manufacturer expects it to be used for, so it unlikely to be a good fit.
All 4 scenarios in that diagram are talking about use at a single location, nothing about sharing files between different places. On that basis, use to share between two different homes looks a long way from what the manufacturer expects it to be used for, so it unlikely to be a good fit.
I'd really suggest you understand/explain the problem better.
Something like a synology still needs to be on a network somewhere (yours or your colleagues) and exposed to the internet (so you need to at least appreciate the security implications) and it won't magically make the internet connection faster.
Dropbox with decent passwords is at least no maintenance and less likely to get hacked if you make a config mistake.
Something like a synology still needs to be on a network somewhere (yours or your colleagues) and exposed to the internet (so you need to at least appreciate the security implications) and it won't magically make the internet connection faster.
Dropbox with decent passwords is at least no maintenance and less likely to get hacked if you make a config mistake.
As already said the speed aspect will generally be related to both your broadband speeds moving to a local nas & sharing this via the internet will likely not improve the experience.
It also has a number of inherent risks, by exposing the data & implicitly the nas to the internet its a potential target for security issues, at best nothing happens after that its a sliding scale where you data can be encrypted in a ransomware attack, through to other devices on your network being compromised.
If you google qnap or western digital security breaches you’ll see some real examples of this.
Now you suggested device seems to come from a very small player in the nas field so I’d have to ask how much effort they will spend on keeping the nas & and remote access software patched & up to date from a security perspective?
If Dropbox is slow have you looked at OneDrive, google drive or iCloud as alternatives?
If you do and they are also slow it’s a pointer back to the respective broadband speeds.
Obviously your data & risk but it’s not one I would take especially with business data.
Also ensure you have proper backups where you can go back to data over a time period rather than just copying data manually, often ransomware attacks do not encrypt the files until some time after infection to reduce the ability to restore, it’s also good practice to periodically test backups to ensure they are working correctly.
It also has a number of inherent risks, by exposing the data & implicitly the nas to the internet its a potential target for security issues, at best nothing happens after that its a sliding scale where you data can be encrypted in a ransomware attack, through to other devices on your network being compromised.
If you google qnap or western digital security breaches you’ll see some real examples of this.
Now you suggested device seems to come from a very small player in the nas field so I’d have to ask how much effort they will spend on keeping the nas & and remote access software patched & up to date from a security perspective?
If Dropbox is slow have you looked at OneDrive, google drive or iCloud as alternatives?
If you do and they are also slow it’s a pointer back to the respective broadband speeds.
Obviously your data & risk but it’s not one I would take especially with business data.
Also ensure you have proper backups where you can go back to data over a time period rather than just copying data manually, often ransomware attacks do not encrypt the files until some time after infection to reduce the ability to restore, it’s also good practice to periodically test backups to ensure they are working correctly.
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