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Space Saver
A great way to free up space. I love that it is Android friendly
Great Little Device - has some limitations, but big potential
I got it to expand on my cloud storage as I did not want to go with the Google Cloud or iCloud or One Cloud (Office 365), but wanted something in house and easy to setup and get going rather than a NAS.Pros:- Ease of setup - 8/10 Was extremely easy to set it up. I had a small hiccup during initial setup, I killed the app thinking it is taking too long. But it was apparently still setting it up, just no progress and looked frozen. Next time around I let it sit for longer and it was fine.- Ease of use 8/10 I use it chiefly to store my phone pictures and share with family. It does all that extremely well. There is one glitch or shortcoming in the iOS app - where the AI recognizes the same person differently (it is possible and expected) but then it does not let you merge those two person as one, and then I have the same person appearing multiple times because in reality it is the same person - just the face detection AI does not see that.Overall for all above all features this is a great device - but if you do not want data on multiple places, then this is not safe in my eyes. Because of following CON.Cons: - [HUGE] no backup of the data on this device. This is not RAID - expected. But has no easy way to setup an off device backup process.I wanted to connected an external drive and want all data from this Amber-X to be backuped on there, but nope - no easy way. We can drag and drop all the files/folders, but there is no automated way to make it do that daily/weekly.And Because of this reason - I had to return my device and then I upgraded to their Amber Pro - which allows for external backups. - which has its own pros and cons. But I have that one has RAID and 2 TB, so more peace of mind.
Easy to set up
Love having this! Since I work from my phone and have tons of pictures and files this is great to store it all!
Got my life in order!!
So happy to finally have space on my phone and trust my photos are stored on my amber x cloud and protected!
Loved it so much
Great product worked as designed
This thing is like magic
You set it up and it starts backing up for you. It's literally like magic. And you get a lot of hard drive for the price
Great NAS!
This is a great product, a little more pricey than others but worth it, easly expandable, easy to set up....Great product!@
Slow on uploads. Lots of unnecessary clutter
I just need an empty, wireless accessible and encrypted SSD. I don’t need you to organize my files or anything. I don’t like having to make an account and it really detracts from the “personal cloud” aspect. It took FOREVER to upload 520mb of data.I have not decided if I will make this the device I store my important data on yet.What is “my amber” vs “cloud folder” - doesn’t make any sense and there’s really no community or documentation. It’s unfortunate. It could be a great product but right now it’s a waste of money for me.
Response from Amber by LatticeWork
Thank you for your feedback. Upload speeds will vary depending on where you are and your internet service provider. "My Amber" is the Amber X storage whereas "Cloud Folder" is a 2GB free cloud storage that we provide with every account. Please visit our Support Center @ https://support.myamberlife.com/hc/en-us or email support@myamberlife.com if you have any questions or need assistance.
I don’t get it
I bought it for storage. You know, like drag and drop for all my documents and files. Doesn’t work. It only takes media files apparently. Their description made me think otherwise. If you want something to just drag And drop data easy, Seagate. I thought this would help automate it but meh, not really.
So easy and cool
Set up was so easy, it is great storage, and great to just leave around the house and use when needed!!!
Really great entry level NAS
Out of the box, this device just works - I wouldn’t say it’s easy enough for your mom to use, but if you know what an ip address is you can probably figure this thing out. It automatically creates web access + smb access, and sets up a secure username and password for you that is shared across both places.
You can also choose to encrypt the disk when you first set it up, if you are worried about the device itself getting stolen with sensitive data.
In a recent update they have unlocked the ability to use this as a Home Assistant server and a Plex server. I have set up the Plex side of that, and it works perfectly- can handle multiple direct play streams to my Apple TV, iPad, and computer at the same time. Not a huge surprise, since the hardware in here is more powerful that Synologys, WD, Qnaps, etc. that are twice the price.
I don’t personally use this for photo backup, but the app makes it easy enough to set that up.
All in all, if you want an easy to maintain NAS that that’s relatively affordable - and you don’t need many TBs of redundant data (i.e. if the built in 512GB + an external drive is enough for you) then this is hard to beat.
Perfect in every way, personal cloud ownership.
It's a personal cloud for my photos & files
A good local device to build up a private cloud
Personal cloud file hosting
Great as backup but rooms for improvement
Convenient
Safe and Easy to use
Cool product
Perfect for iCloud devices
The media are impressed too.
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