Seagate Personal Cloud In Depth Review - New 2015 NAS Network Attached Storage

Author: Lon.TV
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Buy it on Amazon - http://lon.tv/em0n8 (affiliate link) Seagate just released their new Personal Cloud Network Attached Storage device (NAS). This new line of products will replace the Seagate Central product that we reviewed a year or two ago. VIDEO INDEX: 00:06 - Hardware overview 01:58 - Drive replacement 02:38 - Web based control panel and discussion 05:25 - iTunes sharing discussion and issues 07:05 - Backup features 10:06 - Downloadable apps 11:22 - Sdrive application 13:21 - iPhone , iPad and Android mobile app Seagate Media 15:48 - Benchmarks 16:45 - Conclusion and final thoughts This product's focus is on overall simplicity - there is very little to configure. That may present a problem for more technical savvy users who want to have more control over what the device does. Sharing permissions are entirely user based - so creating a user also creates a file share for that user. There is no way to share folders between users, so the only option to work collaboratively is to use the drive's "public" folder that is accessible to all registered users on the drive. I don't like that each user has to set up their own backup schedule. It would be nice for the head administrator to be able to initiate a device-wide backup on a regular interval. It functions as well as other network attached storage devices on a local network. I like their new "S-Drive" application that allows the disk to be access directly through Windows or Mac when not on the local network. It acts as a mini-VPN service that provides end-to-end encryption for accessing the drive remotely. It has some rough edges still but it's a great way to provide full OS level access to the drive when away from home. The mobile app is also a bit rough and needs some work. Photos are really blurry and don't take advantage of the full resolution that modern smart phone and tablet displays can provide. The interface could use some polishing too. Performance is good and about on par with other NAS drives at this price point. But on balance this is the simplest NAS device I've seen. If you're new to network sharing there isn't anything easier than this. Subscribe to my email list to get a weekly digest of upcoming videos! - http://lon.tv/email Visit the Lon.TV store to purchase some of my previously reviewed items! http://lon.tv/store Want to chat with other fans of the channel? Visit our forums! http://lon.tv/forums Want to help the channel? Start a Patreon subscription! http://lon.tv/patreon Follow me on Facebook! http://facebook.com/lonreviewstech Follow me on Twitter! http://twitter.com/lonseidman Catch my longer interviews in audio form on my podcast! http://lon.tv/itunes http://lon.tv/stitcher or the feed at http://lon.tv/podcast/feed.xml Follow me on Google+ http://lonseidman.com

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  1. Any advice?I set up the smart tv streaming and when I try to open a video it plays the audio just fine but the picture is a mess of horizontal lines. Any ideas on how to fix this?
  2. How do you use the nfs protocol with the NAS? The interface won't allow it.
  3. Sounds like the Mac software might have an issue where it is only reading at 100Mb speed.
  4. Is it possible to connect a usb-hub(with power-supply) to attach more then one hard-disk ??
  5. Hello, does it have DDNS??
  6. hi once i logged the user, nobody can access another files/folder or i can't access another folder even though i know the password of the folder.
  7. Thanks.....
  8. Is this a Linux or Windows based OS?
  9. Can you use SATA drives as well?
  10. I would like to see some security reviews and some pen-testing done on them. Any idea what encryption is used and type of transfer? Would be cool if it used openVPN. Anyway to encrypt files s they got to cloud storage?
  11. Lon, do you know if S Drive is compatible with Mac OS Sierra? I can login remotely, and access my NAS through my browser, but S Drive won't open in my Finder. I click on open with finder, but nothing happens. Sorry for the tech support question, but Seagate's tech support is useless.
  12. Are you able to tell this drive NOT to communicate with the internet? Primarily I want it as a network hard-drive that I can access and have accessed over my local area network, I don't really want it communicating with the internet directly without me telling it to.
  13. Hi How to format the personal cloud to NTFS? Thanks
  14. what transfers speeds do you get over a gigabyte connection?
  15. Hi Lon! Is it possible to send a link to a folder to someone else for them to access? I'm thinking of using this to send files to a client instead of using a service like dropbox or hightail
  16. Hello friend, I need help
    Install sdrive, I connect with my data but
    sdrive my network unit does not appear on my pc
  17. Thank you. Great Review.
  18. Thanks for the video. About two months back I bought this Seagate 3TB Personal Cloud from Target. it was on clearance sale, can you believe it? I've been trying to figure out what to do with it; thanks to you I'm starting to get a few ideas. thank you so much.
  19. hi, I have a seagate central and I want to buy this new seagate personal cloud, my question is What I have to do to back up everything to the new seagate personal cloud?
    Thanks
  20. Hi Lon, great video. I am having lots of trouble with the Seagate Media app over 4G (in good locations for signal) it keeps not finding the router except certain occasions. Have enabled all the obvious settings etc - any advice?