![]() Western Digital (WD) offers multiple versions of its My Cloud NAS product, networking veteran ZyXel offers a Personal Cloud line of NAS drives, and Seagate sub-brand LaCie makes the CloudBox. After all, Seagate is not the only drive manufacturer to use this "cloud" conceit in naming its personal storage devices. ![]() In short: The term keeps morphing and evolving. Read our editorial mission (Opens in a new window) & see how we test (Opens in a new window). Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. So how, then, did we get from that vast abstraction to everyday network attached storage (NAS) appliances being called "clouds," like the $169.99-MSRP Seagate Personal Cloud 3TB we're reviewing here today? Or, more simply: How did a humble data-storage device, sitting beside you on your desk, get associated with a term of such immense reach? The cloud was a mysterious entity out there where intricate and wondrous things took place. The term was used by IT people to symbolize the too-complicated-to-explain conglomeration of servers, routers, switches, and data lines. Take, for example, the term "cloud," which emerged in the 1990s as an abstraction for the complicated inner workings of the telephone company, and later to represent the massive infrastructure of the Internet. If you've been in the information technology (IT) business as long as we have, we're sure that you marvel at the evolution of its terminology the same way we do. Only one drive mechanism, thus lacking redundancy drive is not swappable.How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages.
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