![]() Using Tonido showed how mature the system is compared to Pogoplug’s software. The only setup step once you’re done installing. I viewed this as convenient, but I would prefer to be told that it was going to occur in the first place. Tonido also makes any mapped network drives available, meaning my home file server was now also on the cloud. However, it does make things easier on the end user to not have to go through designating which folders are available. I was at first a little apprehensive about having everything on my Windows system immediately available on the cloud. At this point ,Tonido is set up and ready to start sharing. If you already have an account, you log in and add the computer to your account. ![]() Once installed, the system starts up a web server on port 10001 and you are presented with account creation. But, even then, I would think installing the software would be best and easiest to manage. This might be useful if you want to quickly share something with someone, or if you’re using the backup software. Windows users get the added choice of using the installer, or running Tonido off a USB drive, with no install required. Linux users have MEPIS and Ubuntu distributions available to them. Installation is fairly standard for your OS of choice. For $30, this might be a bit high, but CodeLathe has to recoup its development costs. It enables drag-and-drop file sharing along with other amenities to make large file sharing easier. To get the same level of sharing as you would had you purchased a TonidoPlug, users of the Tonido software must purchase WebSharePro, which is the only application that is currently a “pay for” app. Not all the applications are free, however. Just recently released is a Torrent manager that does something similar to the web UI on other BitTorrent clients, but without having to deal with port forwarding. Screenshare takes screen shots every so often and uploads them to a special URL you can watch remotely. Money and Fitness are for tracking their respective activities. Some additional free apps include a Backup system to backup certain folders to either a local disk or a remote computer running Tonido. ![]() Searching is also available, and Web Sharing which makes content on your system availble on the web via a URL you can later disable. These include a Jukebox feature where you can stream audio to your webrowser or mobile phone and create playlists. Tonido has really gotten into the whole “app” concept so there are a number of free apps that come loaded by default, with more available to install. I’ll go into that further in a bit, but let’s look at the rest of the features. This core pack takes whatever hard drives are installed on the system, and makes them available to access via a custom url from the domain. Tonido’s software is free for the base package. Tonido took this path a little sooner than Pogoplug, and it’s evident in their software’s maturity. It’s actually a little excessive at points (what consumer needs iSCSI initiator and target capabilities?) but it’s there for you if you do. Just take a look at any of the recent NASes from Synology, QNAP, or NETGEAR, and you’ll spend ten minutes going over the feature list. Consumers interested in NAS products want the NAS to do everything and then some. What I believe both companies have realized is that the Marvell plug computer form factor is underpowered for the demands of NAS duty. The Tonido Plug is probably the Pogoplug’s biggest competitor, although Tonido has taken a slightly different direction. Media streaming limited to formats supported by deviceĪfter recently reviewing Pogoplug Premium Beta, which turns your Windows or Mac OS computer into a cloud-connected NAS, I thought it would be good to look at Codelathe’s Tonido.Requires a computer, taking more power and additional management overhead than the TonidoPlug.No software to access cloud drives via a network share.Software for Windows, MacOS and Linux that enables cloud-based access
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