Kickstarter Campaign: Nanohive - Personal Server and Personal Cloud

Hi Carlos,

Since you asked.. Just curious, I noticed the project page says that the prototype was an Odroid board.

My question was, firstly, why is the developed product not an Odroid too? It seems a lot of hard work to redesign to make the nanohive do exactly what the Odroid does (and likely at a cheaper cost, since it is made in higher volume).

I understand that the mains power supply is in the same enclosure, but some may see that or the mains connector as a negative (e.g. Europe).

Finally, is there a hard disk built-in, or does external storage need to be used?

If it requires external storage to become the personal cloud, I think this is a problem, because many home network storage NAS devices allow you to host websites on them anyway (if one really wanted to), so the Nanohive would be redundant, given that the first use-case listed for the Nanohive is that it allows you to host websites. A NAS device doesn't cost much more, and is likely faster with SATA disk access.

While the processors are the same we've eliminated some components and added others as our needs are different.  The cost of the board and ancillary components doesn't provide a cost advantage where we'd want to adapt different hardware to our application.  Developing our own hardware also allows us to add features in the future, for example Wi-Fi. 

We plan on implementing stretch goals that will include a solution to make Nanohive compatible worldwide.

There is no hard disk - the data is stored in on-board flash, which is another important hardware difference. 

Nanohive does not require external storage but in fact provides 8GB of internal memory.  While current NAS devices offer some of the same features, our open platform, portability, power consumption and low cost are what we view as the key advantages of our product. 

Thanks for your question!

Hi Carlos,

Thanks for the information. It's good you reply to questions, unlike other kickstarter project creators who don't know how to deal with queries from difficult to please consumers like me : )

I'm possibly not in the target audience for this product, but nevertheless best of luck.

Hi Carlos,

Thanks for the information. It's good you reply to questions, unlike other kickstarter project creators who don't know how to deal with queries from difficult to please consumers like me : )

I'm possibly not in the target audience for this product, but nevertheless best of luck.