Personal Cloud suggestions? PC, Android, iOS

[fastbilly1]

I have a unique situation coming up and need some advice. I need a personal cloud system that has remote admin access, with easy access on iOS and Android, and the ability to play videos. I was going to buy a Drobo Transporter, but apparently that is End of Life and has some user login issues. Right now Owncloud is looking like my only option (other than buying a bunch of dropbox space for two months).

Without breaking NDA, the project is video based and will require random video uploads to ipad viewing parties in other parts of the country. Those remote viewers need something they can double click on and go, nothing fancy. Dropbox is how most people do this, but due to recent issues they have had, I was asked to find an alternative.

Lets just say the budget is $500ish (needs to be able to handle 2tb of space [already have the drives]), at most 2 users at the same time, and it will be on a gigabit cat 5e connection on a OC3 based fiber drop.

[Flake]

I work for a hosting company that does a lot of cloud but we focus on the managed side of things which would probably kill your budget. Let me know what you end up going with, though!

[marurun]

Dude, what's the first rule of fight club?

Exactly.

[fastbilly1]

I prefer Street Countdown


It looks like Owncloud is the way to go, unless Drobo updates the transporter. Time to brush up on my linux command line.

Edit:
I take that back. Looks like Drobo rebranded Transporter under the Connected Data brand:
http://filetransporterstore.com/
It is not perfect, it will require the downloading of the videos instead of just streaming them, but this should be good enough for the project. If they update the ios and android apps to allow streaming, that will change how this is used going forward.

[KalessinDB]

I have a qnap 410 I think. It's a pretty ridiculous personal nas that can do far more than I would ever need it to do. Thumbs up.

[Exhuminator]

personal cloud system that has remote admin access, with easy access on iOS and Android, and the ability to play videos

Don't know if it'll work for you, but I've used Microsoft OneDrive and also Synology DiskStations to do this sort of stuff.

[fastbilly1]

So that project got scrapped, but for those who are curious, I started using Tonido a couple weeks ago and love it so far. It does exactly what I needed and I was able to repurposed an XP Atom 330 box with 4gigs of ram. It pulls down 20w on standby with its current 3.5tb. Eventually it will be upgraded following this:
http://sandeen.net/wordpress/computers/ ... ux-server/

Best part about this build is that I recently pickedup a dead Dell Poweredge 2500 (it got soaked). But the hot swappable bays were still in good shape. So some jerryrigging later I fit the Atom system into the poweredge case with a rigged up fan system. Sure the drives are not hot swappable anymore, but the whole thing slid right in with my other servers and is less than 40db. Sadly the Atom can only handle one video stream, but it just means when another job like the first one comes around, I will use one of the better servers.

Dont get me wrong, there are better options here, but this is the one that works best for my needs.