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- Expandability so many ports
- Media support gotta pay extra for certain software. I did and a couple months later I can't re-download to a newer machine...pretty messed up
- Speed I only have a usb 2.0 1TB and sdhc cards so I don't have the best equipment to truly see the speed
- Noise silent
- Design and form factor looks great!
Detailed review
I wish I had more reasons to use it. Originally my plan was to use it to store movies, music and photos and simply stream them to my laptop, iPhone, iPad and PS3. IT'S SO SLOOOWWWW though. I am a torrentter and it does work for that...sometimes. Other times it just makes the download super slow so I would rather download locally and then transfer, defeating the purpose of the NAS.
Actually I haven't used this in a couple months, I bought 15 ft usb cables to reach across my living room to torrent and transfer. The Pogoplug doesn't work well at all with my PS3. This device does have a nice backup feature that makes it very simple to upload pics and videos from your iPhone so others can see them on the Pogoplug app, but the upload takes forever.
Watching a movie on my iPhone that was uploaded to the Pogoplug cloud is near impossible. Sad really, I love the idea of a NAS, but never thought it could be this slow. I'm still on the fence to buy a USB 3.0 external HDD since I am still using an older laptop primarily and other people have told me that the speed of my wifi limits the speed of the transfers to/from the Pogoplug.
The thing is, if my wifi was faster and I lived with more people (who were as techie as I), this would have such a benefit. Sharing music and media across multiple machines is awesome. However, right now it's a nice to have for the future and an easy way to back up videos from my iPhone without syncing with iTunes. If I could sell it for $80 I would, honestly.
Pogoplug in general is great that you can access files from the cloud for free. You get 5GB and you can pay for more even without having a device!
The other big downfall with this is that I paid upfront for the software (supposedly worth $30) and installed it on 2 laptops. Then I tried to re-download to another machine a few months later and was told that I wouldn't be allowed to do that. What a bummer. A small company on the rise can't get out of their own way. Well, someone else will create a better NAS system or one that is as good as this and they won't restrict their software.
Dumbass companies don't last long and after this one had major problems causing fires you'd think they would hire better PR people.
Actually I haven't used this in a couple months, I bought 15 ft usb cables to reach across my living room to torrent and transfer. The Pogoplug doesn't work well at all with my PS3. This device does have a nice backup feature that makes it very simple to upload pics and videos from your iPhone so others can see them on the Pogoplug app, but the upload takes forever.
Watching a movie on my iPhone that was uploaded to the Pogoplug cloud is near impossible. Sad really, I love the idea of a NAS, but never thought it could be this slow. I'm still on the fence to buy a USB 3.0 external HDD since I am still using an older laptop primarily and other people have told me that the speed of my wifi limits the speed of the transfers to/from the Pogoplug.
The thing is, if my wifi was faster and I lived with more people (who were as techie as I), this would have such a benefit. Sharing music and media across multiple machines is awesome. However, right now it's a nice to have for the future and an easy way to back up videos from my iPhone without syncing with iTunes. If I could sell it for $80 I would, honestly.
Pogoplug in general is great that you can access files from the cloud for free. You get 5GB and you can pay for more even without having a device!
The other big downfall with this is that I paid upfront for the software (supposedly worth $30) and installed it on 2 laptops. Then I tried to re-download to another machine a few months later and was told that I wouldn't be allowed to do that. What a bummer. A small company on the rise can't get out of their own way. Well, someone else will create a better NAS system or one that is as good as this and they won't restrict their software.
Dumbass companies don't last long and after this one had major problems causing fires you'd think they would hire better PR people.
good review!
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