http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/ Engadget Comments for Pogoplug review http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/
Google is your friend:

http://store.pogoplug.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=POGO-E01]]>Apr 6th 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Also: It's a hundred bucks? Say what now? Sorry but there are better and more privacy respecting ways to do such things that make a whole lot more sense to me.

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what a dumb idea, sounds like a data mining scam to me. NAS systems are cheap enough, and so are USBNAS systems]]>Apr 6th 2009 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/
this does the SAME THING

http://sewelldirect.com/Addonics-USB-to-Ethernet-Hard-Drive-NAS-Adapter_specs.asp?source=froogle&utm_source=Froogle&utm_medium=cse

]]>Apr 6th 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Still, interesting for hackers too, once you hacked in you can get not only engadget's secrets (and see all their relatives and friends andsoforth), but of all kinds of celebrity fools that bought into it will have their personal stuff all over it.

As for a reply to the 'what alternative', well you can buy a router with USB drive support for less than a hundred I'm pretty sure for starters, or you can buy an USB ports expansion cards and run a little software to network the drives attached, free software I might add, all for what? $40?
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I'll take one though- its cool.]]>Apr 6th 2009 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/
Otherwise, nice!]]>Apr 6th 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/What type of security and encryption is there around this whole thing?
]]>Apr 6th 2009 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/
Is there any way to use the files on this device to populate an iTunes library that you can share on any computer with iTunes and an internet connection?]]>Apr 6th 2009 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/i think il wait for the new fon router which does the same thing for a hell of a lot cheaper and with way more features ]]>Apr 6th 2009 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/
It only makes sense if it doubled as a LAN over power line solution.]]>Apr 6th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Big deal!
Instead of wasting your money on this stupid thing, spend half that amount and get a REAL NAS interface:
http://www.addonics.com/products/nas/nasu2.asp

With this device, you're not limited to just storage devices, but it can also serve as a print server!
And it has a bult in torrent client!
And it can act as a media server so that you can access your media files on your xBox 360.
Full user access control to manage user read/write access to folders!

And the best thing about this device?

$55.

in my book, this is a "no brainer" that makes the pogo device a loser.

Don't be scammed by imitators...if you need a NAS, get a NAS, not an imatator!

Ed
web/gadget guru]]>Apr 6th 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/
Yes, the option you supplied works great if you are a garden gnome/workaholic and don't leave your house/office. But for anything outside of there your Addonics device fails terribly.]]>Apr 22nd 2009 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/
why do you need special software to mount it?

Proprietary is FAIL!]]>Apr 6th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/
I don't see any point in creating an entirely proprietary way of making the file system available when it's based on linux and you pretty much have everything you need. I'm still looking for some more technical details as to what they are doing in this regard.]]>Apr 6th 2009 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/
I don't need to access my files via a website, but the one great feature I'm interested on this is the ability to access videos over wifi for viewing on an iPod Touch.

Maybe some more tech-savvy community members might be able to recommend another way to achieve this?

Another point I've heard raised about this product is that if the company goes out of business, you're SOL.
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- BECAUSE WI-FI IS F**KING SLOW.
- Cheaper without Wi-Fi

What's the point of using a hard drive that is capable of speeds that Wi-Fi can't match? Sure with N it's no problem but seriously why would you want to place this in a random place. Go playing hide and seek around your house and find this behind your bed!?!?

You keep all devices attached and close to the router for ease of access and it just makes it a whole lot easier.]]>Apr 6th 2009 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/
I'll wait for prices to drop - there should be competitors on the market soon.]]>Apr 6th 2009 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/
If Pogoplug goes out of business, you'll still have the NAS capability locally.]]>Apr 6th 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/
In all honesty, though, who are they trying to sell this to? There's so many other options out there that make more sense to me - like a Ubuntu/Old computer combo, Windows Home Server, Buffalo NAS(ses?). If you're a nerd, you have other options. If you're not computer savvy, you're not spending $99 for a make-a-usb-drive-ethernetable solution.

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I'm interested in that $55 NAS if I can install linux on it, though :-P]]>Apr 6th 2009 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/Apr 6th 2009 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/pogoplug-review/
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9634061300.html
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