JackTheLad
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Hello, I'm Alessandro. As I said in my introductory post, I'm here to learn about NAS technology in general (and FreeNAS in particular) as I'm personally interested in this topic. That's also why I'm collaborating with Cubbit, an innovative distributed p2p cloud storage service with built in redundancy and encryption features.
I want to make a point clear: I'm not here to market a product, but as I have the chance to talk with people interested in the same kind of technology I'm working with, I'd like to hear some opinions, feedbacks and ideas.
I'd like for this topic to be constructive but in the event of divergent opinions I'd prefer it if we adopt this attitude
instead of
Some brief information about Cubbit:
How does it work?
You connect the Cubbit Cell to a router and an electrical power socket and you are ready to go. You just need to make an account to start storing your files. When you upload a file it is client-side encrypted, split into chunks and distributed over the network of Cubbit Cells (your files don't reside directly in your Cubbit Cell but they are in the network, so if the power or internet connection go off at home you're still able to access the stored data). The redundancy procedure is based on Reed Solomon error-correcting codes: each encrypted file is divided into 24 pieces, which are processed into 36 redundancy shards. Out of the 36 shards, only 24 of them are necessary to retrieve the original encrypted file, moreover a recovery procedure is triggered when the total number of online shards reaches a threshold of 30/36.
The user experience is pretty similar to Dropbox to give you an idea.
For any storage device you plug in to the Cell you get half of it to use as cloud service.
This is because of the 100% of the space: 50% is reserved to the user while the other 50% is reserved for redundancy and network operations (including Cubbit's business model to offer in the future a b2b professional cloud service to make it sustainable in the long term. In case you're concerned the user's 50% won't ever be decreased).
Just a quick glimpse of the Cell to let you see it and make the post a bit more visually appealing, lessening the "wall of text" effect :D
Cubbit's service is:
- completely free from subscriptions, forever
- expandable up to 4TB (for now) by simply connecting any USB hard drive
- zero-knowledge: nobody except the owner (and those he decides to authorize) can access the stored data, not even the Cubbit team
- 10 times greener than traditional cloud services, based on proprietary data centers
Currently:
- We raised $50.000 on Kickstarter in less than 1 hour from the launch.
- The Cubbit software is already up and running in beta in more than 10 countries .
- For our green technology, we are funded by the European Commission through the Horizon2020 program. We've also made it into Techstars, an important startup accelerator worldwide.
Below you can find the link to our Kickstarter campaign where, if you're interested, you'll be able to find further informations on the project and in case you have some deep technical questions you'll reach people much more qualified than me to answer them:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cubbit/cubbit-reinventing-the-cloud?ref=4wm35x
There are also Kickstarter's FAQ and Cubbit's webpage FAQ that could help solve your questions.
For any doubt that I'm able to clear I'll be happy to do it.
I want to make a point clear: I'm not here to market a product, but as I have the chance to talk with people interested in the same kind of technology I'm working with, I'd like to hear some opinions, feedbacks and ideas.
I'd like for this topic to be constructive but in the event of divergent opinions I'd prefer it if we adopt this attitude

instead of

Some brief information about Cubbit:
How does it work?
You connect the Cubbit Cell to a router and an electrical power socket and you are ready to go. You just need to make an account to start storing your files. When you upload a file it is client-side encrypted, split into chunks and distributed over the network of Cubbit Cells (your files don't reside directly in your Cubbit Cell but they are in the network, so if the power or internet connection go off at home you're still able to access the stored data). The redundancy procedure is based on Reed Solomon error-correcting codes: each encrypted file is divided into 24 pieces, which are processed into 36 redundancy shards. Out of the 36 shards, only 24 of them are necessary to retrieve the original encrypted file, moreover a recovery procedure is triggered when the total number of online shards reaches a threshold of 30/36.
The user experience is pretty similar to Dropbox to give you an idea.
For any storage device you plug in to the Cell you get half of it to use as cloud service.
This is because of the 100% of the space: 50% is reserved to the user while the other 50% is reserved for redundancy and network operations (including Cubbit's business model to offer in the future a b2b professional cloud service to make it sustainable in the long term. In case you're concerned the user's 50% won't ever be decreased).
Just a quick glimpse of the Cell to let you see it and make the post a bit more visually appealing, lessening the "wall of text" effect :D

Cubbit's service is:
- completely free from subscriptions, forever
- expandable up to 4TB (for now) by simply connecting any USB hard drive
- zero-knowledge: nobody except the owner (and those he decides to authorize) can access the stored data, not even the Cubbit team
- 10 times greener than traditional cloud services, based on proprietary data centers
Currently:
- We raised $50.000 on Kickstarter in less than 1 hour from the launch.
- The Cubbit software is already up and running in beta in more than 10 countries .
- For our green technology, we are funded by the European Commission through the Horizon2020 program. We've also made it into Techstars, an important startup accelerator worldwide.
Below you can find the link to our Kickstarter campaign where, if you're interested, you'll be able to find further informations on the project and in case you have some deep technical questions you'll reach people much more qualified than me to answer them:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cubbit/cubbit-reinventing-the-cloud?ref=4wm35x
There are also Kickstarter's FAQ and Cubbit's webpage FAQ that could help solve your questions.
For any doubt that I'm able to clear I'll be happy to do it.