Comments on: Gizmodo get their hands on Zonbu’s remote-storage Linux PC

By: What is Zonbu?

What is Zonbu? — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:10:00 +0000

Not only is the machine green, but it’s quiet. That’s what’s important. Nothing is moving in there.

By: Dankoozy

Dankoozy — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:35:23 +0000

I am looking for exactly this to use as my server. 1.2ghz is fine (even 350mhz does the job), toss in 1gb of ram. even 256 will do, but the whole offsite storage thing is retarded. toss a nice 8/16gb compact flash card in to it and you got a nice email/web/gopher/bittorrent/dns/proxy/cifs/sql server. have a separate NAS to store all nonessential files on

By: Chris Davies

Chris Davies — Fri, 25 May 2007 08:09:11 +0000

You’re right, of course, but I’d wager the Zonbu people are aiming at the sort of computer user who isn’t at all comfortable with the idea even of slotting a hard-drive into a computer. What remains to be seen is if such a demographic will be willing to pay $156+ a year (on top of what would likely have to be a fairly broad internet pipe) for the privilege of remaining relatively hands-off.

[quote comment="22642"]OK as an example of one solution… For a flat $100 to $139.99, got drives of 300 to 500 Gb delivered to my door! Then, they go into a ‘curbside donation’ Dell or Compaq system, that is now the network drone storage unit at my cave. Offsite storage uses Gmail servers. But, hey, each to their own!

We don’t need more “subscriptions”. The goal is one, or less.[/quote]

By: univiction

univiction — Thu, 24 May 2007 12:55:50 +0000

OK as an example of one solution… For a flat $100 to $139.99, got drives of 300 to 500 Gb delivered to my door! Then, they go into a ‘curbside donation’ Dell or Compaq system, that is now the network drone storage unit at my cave. Offsite storage uses Gmail servers. But, hey, each to their own!

We don’t need more “subscriptions”. The goal is one, or less.