Pogoplug Multimedia Sharing Device (Model B01 Pink or P21 Black) $17 + Free Shipping (Ebay Daily Deal)

These are amazing. I have one already. Getting another one. Add archlinux and you are all set.

FWIW, I get plenty of use out of mine and didn't modify it at all. I'd definitely recommend checking out the other threads and pick one up to tinker with if you have a few bucks burning a hole in your pocket.

Bad reviews are from carry over from when this was half way to the price range of a full fledge NAS box.

This has some limits over a NAS box, but its now only $17.

Here is the B01 version I just received (ordered 3 days ago):

~ # uname -a
Linux Pogoplug 2.6.31.6_SMP_820 #96 SMP Tue Feb 8 12:08:54 PST 2011 armv6l GNU/L inux

~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 5 (v6l)
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 279.34

processor : 1
BogoMIPS : 279.34

Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp java
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xb02
CPU revision : 5

Hardware : Oxsemi NAS
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000

~ # cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 125768 kB
MemFree: 87256 kB
Buffers: 0 kB
Cached: 5232 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 3264 kB
Inactive: 3504 kB
Active(anon): 1548 kB
Inactive(anon): 0 kB
Active(file): 1716 kB
Inactive(file): 3504 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 1536 kB
Mapped: 2820 kB
Slab: 2788 kB
SReclaimable: 348 kB
SUnreclaim: 2440 kB
PageTables: 112 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 88036 kB
Committed_AS: 4932 kB
VmallocTotal: 598016 kB
VmallocUsed: 768 kB
VmallocChunk: 596684 kB


It's not the E02 model so the ram is halved.

Thanks OP. Bought one

Got this on a BF sale and it was well worth it. You can install Arch Linux or Debian and use it as a mini-server.

I bought mine during the $18.50 deal...the one where if you ordered the P21, they sent you the E02. I got the E02, and haven't even bothered modding it yet.

I used the software included to create one (free) master account and to map my 3 TB external drive as a P: drive on my work laptop, my home laptop, and my Home Theater PC. I also connect to it through android on my and my wife's phone. There's a small lag when connecting sometimes (probably due to the power saving settings on my external drive), but other than that, it works fine. I'm able to pull up my photos, HD home videos, and some cartoon shorts I ripped from a DVD for my son from just about anywhere.

There's a bit of lag if I'm watching a video from an external network, but I'm mostly using it to stream in my house and to host my backup drive. Works great for that

Mine is great. You control your storage. I mainly use mine to have access to ALL my music.

How is this different from Pogoplug mobile ?

http://www.amazon.com/Pogoplug-Ba...B005GM1Q1O

Yeah...slapped on Debian ARM or ALARM and you got a power efficient NAS/DNLA/Torrent server.

I have a Raspberry Pi sitting on my desk being used in a home automation project.Wondering if I should buy this for a NAS...

Just wondering if this supports 3TB NTFS ? One i hook up my external drive does it reformat it ...do i have to back up my data first ? Thx

Quote from nuclearpirate99 : I have a Raspberry Pi sitting on my desk being used in a home automation project.Wondering if I should buy this for a NAS...

These are roughly comparable devices wrt computing power / memory. The Pi has more kinds of I/O while the Pogo has 4 USB ports and its own power supply for itself and the USB ports. If you're looking to make a small NAS, hacking one of the Pogo's is the way to go imho. But it won't do much more than disk server related activities. I'm not sure, though, if these have internal timers. Which could give this an edge in some ways over the Pi.

sorry, but i don't don't understand the point of this when I already have a main computer that has a HDD which all of my devices can connect to and share files. What benefit would I have using this for that purpose? If there is a benefit over my normal setup, $17 is worth it.