Brease to Make USB HDD Accessible on All Devices as Cloud Storage

Brease turns your external drives into cloud storage and makes them accessible on all your devices, from anywhere.

This new project was launched by Brease Technologies LLC in Maastricht, Netherlands, on Kickstarter, Inc., and received $47,496 from 456 contributors.

Brease is an easy to set up cloud hub that turns the storage you already have into a cloud of your own.

Just connect your external hard or flash drives and your personal cloud increases with the size of these drives. Brease makes these drives accessible on all of your devices. Just like regular cloud storage, but with no size limitations and completely private and secure.

Store

Use your physical storage like any regular cloud storage; view, add, remove and edit your files instantly through our great apps for mobile devices, computers and web browsers.
Start creating a document at home and continue working on the road. Brease will keep your files in sync on all your devices.
Need more space to store all your files? Simply add another hard drive and your cloud instantly becomes bigger.
When you decide to unplug your hard drive, you can use it as a normal drive again. So feel free to add, remove, and swap storage as much as you like.
Brease is not changing the way you use the cloud, but changing its data source, that’s all. It’s your data, your cloud and you are in control.

Share

With Brease, your content can be made accessible to friends, family, or even your company in one single click.
From read-only to full access, it provides easy customizable settings for each user you share your content with.
You can provide them with some personal cloud storage of their own.
Build the cloud for your family or business; create users, groups and keep track of all your data.
Whether you want to share a folder, grant one-day access to a document or give away 50GB of storage to a friend, it’s easy.

Backup

Backup all your files to any connected hard drive, so you never have to lose a file again.
Select a drive using one of our applications and choose which assigned devices it needs to cover.
The backup process runs autonomous and you’re able to adjust the backup scheme on any device.
Brease has built-in support for RAID, up to RAID-6, and JBOD. This way your drives are able to backup each other as well.
Need even more safety? Backup all your data to a second Brease to keep it on two different locations.

Media

Stream all media stored on your drives to the screen of your choice, right from your Brease.
Built-in support for major file formats.
Listen to music or watch a video wherever you are using company’s extensive mediaplayer in the mobile applications.
No internet, no problem. With the optional offline mode you can always access your files, even when you’re temporarily offline.
Support for DLNA, Chromecast and Airplay when the company hits its first stretch goal.

Privacy
To make sure only you are able to store, share and backup your files, Brease created an authentication process that is unique. When a device is assigned to your Brease for the first time, an encrypted master key is generated. This master key is then stored locally on both your Brease and the assigned device. Every time you connect to Brease (i.e. when you open the app on your smartphone), this master key determines that it’s you by matching both keys. Master keys are unique for each assigned device, which means that when an unknown or fraudulent device wants to access your Brease, it won’t be recognized and thus won’t have access to any files, even when the correct login credentials have been entered.

Tech talks
The software is based on an open source Linux kernel, which is optimized to run peer-to-peer protocol. Ite handles all the requests from the Brease using SSH (Secure Shell); from opening files to sharing folders. Alongside this software, an AES 256-bit encryption model runs on Brease. All keys used by this model are stored locally and are only accessible to physically assigned devices.