DATA, IRREPLACEABLE PERSONAL ASSETS
We are living in a age when data assets are as important as real estates and bank deposits. It is nearly impossible to restore personal data without a proper backup. There are generally two options for safer personal data storage. One is NAS, known as Network Attached Storage and the other is Could storage services. The former are mostly used by pro users, and due to a restrict network supervision, domestic cloud storage service are facing a severe crisis of truth as well as foreign could storage services are banned by firewall. That’s why our client wants to develop a personal cloud storage devices which is easy to set up, no internet engineering knowledge needed, and at the same time, avoid any network supervision.
NOBODY WANTS A MATRIX AT HOME!
Properly setting up your own NAS is a complicate task. That’s why most of the NAS users are computer engineers or programmers who are equipped with network knowledges. Our target consumers are designers with important files, lawyers with confidential paper works, old people with precious family photos etc. The former enjoy the process of setting up while the latter can hardly remember their own Wi-Fi password.
Intimidating appearance
Professionalism is what pro users are looking for when purchasing NAS products, which can be rather intimating for average users.
Indicator nightmare
Most of our users even have no idea what are those indicators represents for on their routers, and there are even more indicators on NAS.
DATA IS HOME, DATA IS SAFE
There are two problems we need to solve . First is how to deliver a sense of gentleness based on a box shape. The second is how can we maximize the indicator legibility when there is only one indicator left. We try to bring gentleness to this box by adding curve on its top. This image reminds us curtain at home, which brings us to the memory of hiding under the bed, seeking for sence of safety in the chindhood. The indicator can be hidden under the “bed” and gently protected.
HARDWARE AND INDICATOR UPGRAD
Replacing HDD by SSD significantly lower the heat, which makes it possible to abandon fans and adopt passive cooling. This also avoids the noise both form HDD and fan and reduces the size of product. The indicator can only deliver four information, power on, power on with internet connected, internet connection error and file transferring. Matt pc piece brings light from led on pcba to the space between aluminium top cover and plastic body. Light can evenly, gently
