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I know why you're happy . . . you've got cloud fever. You can't get enough of cloud this and cloud that so, as a change from megascale, enterprise-scale, cumulonimbus-like behemoths, let's look at something more on the wispy, happy, summer stratus-like scale The TonidoPlug 2, which is based on the SheevaPlug and developed and marketed by Code Lathe, is a personal cloud system that is really cool, amazingly well-featured, and remarkably inexpensive.
Driven by a Marvell Kirkwood MV88F6281 ARM-compliant system -on -a- chip (SoC) with a Feroceon 88FRT31 rev 1 (v51) processor running at 794.62 MHz with 512MB of RAM. this device is surprisingly fast.
The TonidoPlug is physically small (5,5 inches by 3 inches by 1 inch) and provides 512MB of flash storage for the operating system and apps, an internal slot for a 2.5-inch SATA II drive, and a single USB 2.0 port...