 Cthen
join:2004-08-01
Detroit, MI
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| What a rip off. For the price of free a home user can do even more with this installed: »www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx
It also has a phone app version too for on the go!
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| But...but...but... It's not a "cloud" lol |
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| pogoplug I have 2 version 3 pogos (V3) and 1 version 2 (V2). Right now you can get a V3 at jr.com for $20 which is what I paid for mine. The V3's have an internal SATA port which doubles the disk speed vs USB disks. I run Arch Linux on mine and now have MythTV backend running on the 3 of them with an HDHomeRun Prime and an older HDHomeRun dual. I use the SATA ports and overclock the V3's from 700 MHz to 850. And the cpu's are dual core on the V3's. They are pretty cool devices if you want to tinker with them.
And no, I have no affiliation with either j&r or pogo. |
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| Power factor Since the power savings mentioned in the article is not a factor, i guess the other thing to consider is , is there any better security with it than a pc? |
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1 edit | Where are the established vendors I never heard of these guys and who knows if they will be around tomorrow. However if you look at the established NAS vendors these items are offered similarly by Synology (Usbstation2) which will also act as a print server, and you can add a wireless dongle.
The torido really needs the pro to do anything (min $150), and if you want any level of security the Pogo will require the $150 model. These both require you to hook up external USB storage and then you have to worry about spindown. So add a USB bay and add $30 or so (for a decent one) that supports proper spindown.
Apparently Pogo lets you connect a 2.5 drive, on top of it, but what if you knock the thing? I never liked those dock types. It looks like it has some potential though. Maybe after a few years.
At that price a single bay Synology DS100 series will have the bay and spindown, will be much faster at only $150, it does all that stuff, and will be supported for a LONG time.
My 4 year old Synology has the latest firmware (DSM 4.1) and all of this "cloud" stuff now baked in. When I purchased it, DR was my only plan. Now I can stream my music collection from the cloud (on wifi of course) and then cache it for cellular. It supports all major mob types (android, ios, winphone).
If you add external USB storage your price for those other solutions is not attractive, and you risk the incompatibility between the USB bay and this device for spindown.
Just my 2c, why buy some unknown when you can buy established and expect support for years with similar or more features?
And in 4 years there has NEVER been a blip w/ my Synology NAS boxes. |
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| Never heard of them either. Are they companies that just submitted products to have a nice review? Especially since you don't see the "writer" of the article around here very much, if at any. |
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toro
join:2006-01-27
Scarborough, ON Reviews:
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Pogoplug has been around for at least 3 years. Members of the VoIP Tech Chat forum have been using them for home PBX servers since 2009: »[Equipment] Any way to make this device a VoIP client?
Other well known manufacturers that have been using Pogoplug in their products are Seagate (in their Dockstar product »www.seagate.com/gb/en/external-h···ockstar/) and Buffalo (in the Cloudstor product: »www.buffalocloudstor.com/)
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| Thanks. Didn't know. I looked at them earlier in the year, but I remember if you wanted to do anything, you had to pay for feature keys, quickly jacking up the cost. If you can put another drop on it, that could be very interesting for embedded devices... I never heard of the other guys, not saying their product isn't great.
It would be useful for these reviews however to say compare these products to an established vendor like netgear, thecus, synology, etc... If these products are better, maybe this can get me to try them out...
If they could combine that w/ a VOIP device, watch out cablecos.... My next door neighbor is going through the TWC add fees and they have the 3-play.
My other concern with all these great cloud products is caps on HSI in the house, and upload (cable is much slower than my FIOS). |
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Re: What a rip off. I think the thing with the Pogo and TonidoPlug is it's small power consumption. Plus TeamViewer? Amateur. Do it right or go home. |
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| Or... Owncloud.org
Just saying |
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| How is this a cloud product? Cloud being distributed service, spread out through many computer systems, data centers and sometimes continents.
How does a single hard drive count for a cloud product?
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Re: What a rip off. But how much are you paying in electricity costs to run your PC at home? I keep my linux server, router, modem, and obi100 powered up 24/7, and calculate that it costs nearly $8/mo. in electricity, and the combined average load of all of that is ~90W. I imagine a sizable amount of that is from the server and HDD's, but being able to lower the power consumption could potentially save a couple bucks a month in power usage. |
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 jester121Premium
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | reply to kevinds
Re: How is this a cloud product? It doesn't.
But most people don't really understand what "cloud" means so if it's handy and slick, they figure that must be right. |
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| Tonido is a good software Tonido has been around for more than 3 years as well. Their software is used in other NAS products from Freecom and D-Link. Don't belittle the products that you have not tried. I use Tonido in my home server. It is awesome. Just try it and i am sure you will like it. |
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 wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | reply to toro
Re: Where are the established vendors Hard to believe I posted that original thread in 2009! In either case I have been running the device non stop as a VoIP server since then with fantastic results.
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 syslockPremium
join:2007-02-03
Honolulu, HI | reply to buzz_4_20
Re: Or... LOL took the words right out of my mouth. |
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 kingdome74Emotionally UnavailablePremium
join:2002-03-27
Syracuse, NY
kudos:2 | Question If I purchase a TonidoPlus for my home network can everyone upload their files , music, videos to it or can only one user do it?
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Re: Tonido is a good software EDIT: Nevermind  |
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Re: How is this a cloud product? @ryan711 calls it Cloud for this article, but the product's websites don't mention cloud, only NAS.
Ryan, why do you consider these products to be able to create a cloud at home?
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Re: Question you can create guest users and give write permissions to them. they can upload files, music and video. |
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