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Pogoplug Multimedia Sharing Device | 
| Brand: Pogoplug
Category: CE
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $69.99
You Save: $30.00 (30%)
New (11) Used (5) from $64.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  55 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 4 x 10.1 x 7.1
MPN: POGO-E02
Model: POGO-E02
UPC: 850877002023
EAN: 0850877002023
ASIN: B0033WSDR4
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Pogoplug lets you connect to any external hard drive and then access and share content through the internet | | • | Stream videos, music and photos directly to your iPhone, Blackberry, Droid and other mobile devices | | • | Works with Safari, Firefox 3, IE 7, IE 8 and Chrome Web Browers. MS Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X 10.4 and above |
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Product Description
Media Sharing Device
Pogoplug is a multimedia sharing device that lets you connect any external hard drive and then access and share your content over the internet. Installation takes less than 60 seconds and there are no monthly fees. Get plugged in today!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 50 more reviews...
Fundamentally sound and trivial to use September 5, 2010
The Pogoplug was very easy to get started with, and meets my needs quite effectively. Essentially, it works exactly as advertised and does so quite nicely. There are a few annoyances with the Windows version of the "Active Copy" tool related to overwhelming my (high end) machine with large copies, but these are likely to be solved with software updates.
Overall, an excellent product.
 Piece of Junk September 4, 2010
The product works according to it's advertisement. But the big problem is that reading or loading a file using this device takes forever. It is sooooo slow it's useless. This product is garbage.
Still on the fence September 3, 2010
I finally bought this after so much agonizing over whether it will work as advertised. It was over half off on sale so I finally gave in and got it. I like how easy it was to set up. The web interface was plain and simple and it was running in less then a minute. However, here is what I have a problem with. The web page that is gives you to work on looks nothing like the picture they use to describe it. I don't know if I am doing something wrong but what I see is very simple and I can't see all the files. I shared 3 folders with myself using a second email to see what it looks like when you share a file. It sent 3 separate emails with a link to the file i sent. When I click on the link, I can only see that file, so I have to click on all three links and open 3 separate pages if I want to see all three files. And the web page looks like crap there too. In the picture they show as the web page here on Amazon, it looks all nice with drop down menus and everything is organized. Does anyone else have this problem?
Also the links I send are only good for 2 weeks. They expire if the other person is not a pogoplug member. Over all the device I really don't have to look at or see as it does it's thing quietly and with no interaction from me.
I just wish the web page was better or I knew what I was doing wrong. I gace it 4 stars still as the product itself works fine.
Oh, I also use the pogoplug iphone app. It's free. So far everytime I hit the back button after going into a folder, it crashes. Also the interface on the iphone looks as bad and is as hard to navigate as the web page it shows on my computer. But once I can find a song or picture, it streams perfectly
 Here's what it does (perfectly) September 3, 2010
Here's a list of what you can do with it:
- Connect up to four USB Disks or thumb drives.
- Access the contents of the drives using any web browser.
- Upload/Download files using any web browser.
- Organize data the way you want by creating your own file hierarchy.
- Have data organized automatically (in addition to the directories you create). For example, music can be accessed by album, artist, or genre. Photos can be accessed by date.
- With a free desktop app you can access the disks as if they were mounted drives (e.g., P: ) from any computer connected to the Internet. While I'm typing this I'm also using Norton Ghost to backup my Netbook over a wireless connection to my Pogoplug-connected disk at home.
- Share groups of files via automatically created links distributed by Pogoplug via email.
- Have email attachments automatically saved to the drives.
- Create, play, and share slide shows (complete with music).
- You can do much of the above from a number of mobile devices using free apps.
You can use this as a poor person's NAS, a media server (did I mention it can stream to an XBox or FreeAgent system?), a remote backup server, a fileserver... You get a lot of technology available with (for me) little effort.
For me the only issue was the iPhone app crashed a couple times when I started using it. (I also could have done without the pink.) Beyond that everything has been flawless.
Instant cloud computing -- no fees and aa EZ as they say it is September 2, 2010
I usually don't pay attention to the "daily deals" I get via email every day, but this one made me take notice. For $50 and free shipping, I could have a cloud computing soution for my four external hard drives? No additional fees? And they say it takes longer to get it out of the box than it does to hook it up? I was intrigued for about 60 seconds until I pulled an impulse-buy on this bad boy.
Okay, I'm not thrilled with the pink-only design, and it could have had a much brighter "on" indicator light, but when I hooked up the hard drives and walked back to my laptop, and registered . . . Something amazing happened.
For over a year, I'd been looking for a cloud computing solution. My laptop is jammed with files and I have a ton of other files on the external drives. This was an out-of-nowhere solution that was 1) instant, 2) simple, 3) ingenious, 4) comprehensive and 5) ubiquitous way to now access all of my files from the last 10 years over the Internet, wherever I am, from any machine, as long as there's wifi. Great concept, astounding value, simple and elegant. Best $50 I've spent in a long long time.
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