17 Jan 2009, 7:29pm
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ZumoDrive: I Want It, But Just for Me

ZumoDrive sounds interesting, per this article:

For $60 a month, you can store 200gb on ZumoDrive. You can stick your whole iTunes album into it, for example, and access it from whatever machine or device you’re using.

Neat. It makes it appear as though their “cloud” (which is to say: somewhere not where your computer is, ie: internetwork) share is a local volume. I like that idea a lot. Actually, I love that idea. It bugs me that my entire iTunes library has to be carted around on my laptop everywhere I go just because I want to listen to it.

You see, I have a terabyte of networked drive space at home available to every machine on my home network. I’d much rather have my iTunes library stored on that and accessed via my laptop when I’m home via the local network (this is trivial). But here’s the kicker: I also want to be able to access that library remotely as well, which sounds a lot like what ZumoDrive proposes except I no longer control my data in this scenario, they do. (And no offense ZumoDrive, as good as you look internet start-ups have a whacky tendency to just disappear.)

So is there a way for me do to that? Something I can install on my Mac that says “treat this data from this IP address as a local volume”? I’d pay for that.