Cloud Store vs Cloud Pod (Storage affordability)

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Cloud Store vs Cloud Pod (Storage affordability)

PostFri Oct 10, 2025 9:48 pm

Hi all. This is a little heads up for those who want to increase storage on Cloud Pod vs buying a Cloud Store. I have a Cloud Store 8TB that I use primarily for working on active projects. I could only afford the 8TB at the time, but I also had a Cloud Pod that I hooked two 4TB drives to, one of which is synced to Google Drive. The Cloud Pod is synced to Blackmagic sync. I started quickly running out of space on the Cloud Store with a number of projects done. I found a bargain solution that allows me to add much more reasonable space to the Cloud Pod. I purchased this Juiced hub from Amazon https://a.co/d/3hBmLok and it has been a godsend because the hub has USB-C connection, and adds two USB-C ports and two USB-A ports. I have tried a few other hubs, but they don't work like this one. Now the one Cloud Pod port 1 has two USB-C 8TB Crucial SSDs and the original two USB-C 4TB Crucial portable SSDs on it via this hub. The second Cloud Pod port has a 20TB Seagate HD and an 8TB Seagate (the Expansion USB 3.0 ones, for backup purposes) via a second Juiced hub, and still has two ports open. This has brought my Cloud Pod storage up to 52TB. I chose the Seagate HDs because I did notice that you cannot plug SATA devices to the Cloud Pod. This way I can use the speedy NVME Cloud Store for working projects, the Cloud Pod SSDs for additional project media storage and cache, and the Seagate HDs for Resolve archives, plugins, and backups. It has enabled me to keep more space on my Cloud Store, at least until larger capacity NVME comes down in price. The same Juiced hub enabled me to put multiple SSDs onto my Atem Extreme ISO's USB-C port. I hope this long post does help someone else in the same situation.

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