I'm evaluating Sync as an alternative to Dropbox.
We have 3 Windows PCs (Vista through 8), two Windows 8 laptops, one iPhone, and one Android phone. We currently have all of these devices synced to Dropbox, with each device selectively synced to the folders it needs. I work from home a lot and am allowed to cache company files on my laptop and Dropbox, provided each is not accessible to my family or outsiders. (The requirement is that the data is encrypted in motion and at rest, and password protected.) Between home and work, we have about 500 GB of data now, which could maybe grow to 1 TB within 2 years.
My use case: I would to get all this off Dropbox and set up a home "cloud" equivalent. I would like to set up a cheap, low-power-consumption server that could run 24/7 or as needed, with an encrypted partition, a folder for my family, a folder for each user, a password-protected folder for my work stuff, and then selectively sync each device to the appropriate share/folder structure on the server. IOW, the server would replace Dropbox storage, and Sync would replace the Dropbox sync client.
I'm having difficulty finding a well-reviewed, low-consumption server for this, but thought one of the Sync-supported NAS devices might suffice. I don't want to SMB mount it; I just want to tell the Sync client on each device to sync certain folders from that device to the server. I don't know whether any of the supported devices have disk encryption yet.
The key here is a drop-in replacement for Dropbox with the additional security needed for work files.
In your opinion, does Sync support this use case?
Thanks
