Sounds like you want Plex (if sharing media is your only goal) or http://www.filetransporter.com/ (for general purpose cloud file sharing). Perhaps paired with a Drobo for easy expandability and redundancy. Not sure where Ceph fits in that picture as it is currently much more complexŠ On 3/25/14, 11:50 AM, "Loic Dachary" <loic@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hi, > >It's not available yet but ... are we far away ? > >I would like to go to the hardware store and buy a Ceph enabled disk, >plug it to my internet box and use it. I would buy another for my sister >and pair it with mine so we share photos and movies we like. My mail >would go there too, encrypted because I would not want my sister to read >it. My brother in law is likely to buy one if he knows he can pair with >us and grow our family storage. > >The user interface could be crude : when buying a disk and installing it >somewhere, a geek is involved. I would like it to be simple and reliable. >When discovering it for the first time I would like to say : "that makes >sense". I don't expect something that would magically work. The HOWTO >install / fix / diagnose would have to fit on a single page. > >Cheers > >-- >Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com