Just got the new Pogoplug 4 and so far I love that I can share my "Terabyter" with my PS3, laptop and still working the kinks out on using it with my iPhone. Just using it with my laptop and PS3 is well worth it even if I never use it for my phone though. On the series 4 model comes 2 usb 3.0 ports in addition to 1 usb 2.0, sd card slot and a few other ports for dropping certain hard drives right in. Right now I have my Terabyter hooked up to the usb 3.0 and it works great for streaming tv shows and movies to my ps3.
Transferring files from my laptop however....takes forever. Like 1.3 mb/sec at best. So when I started a 30GB HD video collection transfer it really did take 7 hours. I know usb 3.0 is supposedly 10X faster at peak, but are over the air transfers going to be nearly as fast? My laptop is from 2007 and I plan on buying a new one before May, but my question is still, are usb 3.0 hard drives worth $100? I guess if I bought one I would buy a 500GB of 1TB and stash my existing Terabyter in the closet to be used for emergency backups or possibly bring to work. Who has experience with USB 3.0 and hard drives with it built in?
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Just got a Pogoplug 4 and use my WD 1TB hard drive with USB 2.0, is 3.0 worth an extra $100 right now?
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How is your laptop connected to the network? If the answer is wireless internet then that's why. USB 2.0 is 480 mbps and 802.11n (Wireless N) is 350 mbps. Even if you get USB 3.0 which is 5000 mbps or 5 gbps, it's still going to cap at 350 mbps due to the fact you are using Wireless N. If you have gigabit ethernet, then that caps off at 1000 mbps or 1 gbps.
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