>do people "see [cloud] as a fine alternative to desktop storage"?
No. The mini nas market has been killed by atom and arm based devices offering fewer bays at greater expense than a desktop.
Smallbiz will just upgrade disks in a server and the home market won't pay whole-server system prices for 1g Ethernet-attached disk, now they are used to flash.
I'm guessing the problem is that home storage requirements exceed business requirements which makes vendors' market segmentation difficult, but as Bieber says, "you can go and love yourself."
Biting the hand that feeds IT
