MyDitto Cloud NAS Revealed

Dane-Elec has shown off their myDitto product, a seemingly simple NAS that when setup, will allow users to access their data anywhere they can get an internet connection, via a USB thumb drive. The device is being marketed for the non-technical and the website is promoting it as an easy-to-use product.

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The NAS itself will have two HDD bays with a maximum capacity of 4TB. For connectivity it will have two USB ports and a wired Ethernet port. It will support DLNA and iTunes standards for multimedia protocols, but the real trick here is the top secret “myDitto proprietary” connection protocol that connects the NAS to the thumb drive.

We were eager to learn how this exactly worked and how the USB thumb drive was networked to the NAS (or why you even needed a thumb drive – why can’t your laptop simply connect to your home network over the cloud and pull data off the myDitto?), but Dane-Elec is keeping all of the myDitto’s inner workings under wraps.

For security, the myDitto will feature “personalized” security through authenticated USB keys, combined with a password protection scheme. For desktops and notebooks, the myDitto can be used with Windows XP or later, any Mac OS after 10.5, and even Fedora and Ubuntu. On the Mobile OS side, the myDitto is only compatible with the iPhone and Windows Mobile platforms.

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