23 responses to “Plug Computers & Pogoplug”

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   Corey Marsden February 26th, 2009 at 07:47

   No uploading and easy access, very nice. I think the iphone app is going to be a major selling point.

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   Lauradevries February 26th, 2009 at 08:41

   I definitely think the iphone will help sell this things. I dont know very much about computers and new technology, but even Im interested. Im interested to hear more, let us know how your’s works hank!

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   Margaret Kendrick February 26th, 2009 at 09:03

   I think this is a really cool idea, and personally I’m glad they are working with the Apple iPhone. I think this is great for families who want to share files. I personally hate having to plug my external in every time I want to get something off of it, and I just recently found out I can’t plug mine into another computer and get files off of it (at least not without installing something on the other computer). I think I’ll have to look in to this as a possible Father’s Day gift!

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   Alex D February 26th, 2009 at 09:29

   This thing seems way overpriced. With a little know-how and a lot less money, anyone could switch their existing external to a Network Attached Storage and plug it into their router. Many high end routers even have the ability to plug externals directly in through a usb port.

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   George Takahashi February 26th, 2009 at 10:22

   I could understand why this was developed for the “user friendly” aspect. Being able to plug and go makes things very simple, yet I wonder at what cost. It is not very difficult to setup a small home network accessible among all users on a network and off-site, but I do like that this is made specifically to allow users to setup simple networks. I do have a minor concern about data transfer speeds. If I had a specific drive connected this device, and I decided to watch a movie off the drive while transferring files back and forth (or if a user on the network started pull data off drive), I would be concerned of a bottleneck if said drive was being accessed simultaneously. This would be something I would have to read into during benchmark tests.

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   Jongho James Lee February 26th, 2009 at 10:43

   I think this is a good news for computer beginners because they do not have to learn how to upload files or anything. I like the way how this device is very user friendly because it’s just simple. I’m sure this will bring a huge impact once it starts working with Iphone.

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   Spencer McKee February 26th, 2009 at 10:48

   This seems to have a lot of benefits. That would be very helpful allowing you to access files anywhere with internet. It seems like sites like adrive might be more cost efficient though, they may take more time to set up but it’s free to upload 50 gbs.

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   Brett Damisch February 26th, 2009 at 11:08

   I think that this product sounds like a great idea especially when the iphone application comes out. It will hopefully be very user friendly and it will make it easier for mobile phone users to upload pictures and music as well.

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   Ryan Wilsey February 26th, 2009 at 11:30

   My coworkers were showing this to me the other day. I was rather impressed with the idea of turning the wall wart itself into a Linux machine. Seemed almost too good to be true, but it makes sense – plus making everything external and all… pretty cool stuff.

   I personally don’t have much use for one at the time, but still. Let me know how it works out for you, Hank!

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    Crystal Reno February 26th, 2009 at 12:18

    I think this is really neat, simple, and could be very useful. I know it would probably help me because I’m not exactly the best with electronics. It would be a great thing to get my parents too since they understand less about electronics and technology than I do.

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    Allison Yeater February 26th, 2009 at 13:11

    It’s amazing what they come up with these days…I agree that it would definately help me who knows very little about electronics. Sounds very user friendly!

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    Michelle Miller February 26th, 2009 at 13:26

    Seems easy to use but I don’t think I would personally use one that much. I just keep everything on my laptop. It does sound like it will appeal more to iPhone users though.

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    Devarshi Patel February 26th, 2009 at 13:39

    An excellent example of DIM used here… a product filling in the market need…
    i wonder how many man hours must have been spent developing and designing this product?

    999

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    Sikhanyiswe February 26th, 2009 at 13:48

    This is an amazing product. It is definetly disruptive. I like how they are not known and need to intriduce their name. In the the future they will probably be welll known by alot of people

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    Andrew Sadler February 26th, 2009 at 14:17

    With this product being so user-friendly, and cheap! I’ll be very excited to see where this goes. A lot of external drives cost $80.00 alone and don’t have near as many capabilities so this should be very disruptive, it’s just a matter of how long it will be.

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    Caleb Tan February 26th, 2009 at 15:19

    This product seems really cool and practical. I wonder how well it would work running programs off of a hard drive. Is it able to do it? And wouldn’t that slow the bit rate down dramatically?

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    Felipe Burneo February 26th, 2009 at 16:00

    Really nice gadget! I think Caleb already aske the things I wanted to know about this product. But i have to ask something else… what would you do if the power goes off? Does it have a power supply that will assure me to have enough time to save my work, send one last email or even continue doing the server job until the power is reconected??
    They did good on choosing Linux as the OS hopefully it will be enough and the performance won’t be compromised when using more than two apps.

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    Breanna Ware February 26th, 2009 at 16:25

    This product is a disruptive one for sure. I agree its major selling points are the ease of use and the iphone application. It is useful to have that type of access from your phone.

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    Tim Sutton February 26th, 2009 at 18:28

    I agree with everyone else. This is a great idea. Im really not that computer savy, but I would definately like to see how yours work Hank.

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    Micah Johnston February 26th, 2009 at 19:54

    This is a really cool product! How convenient to be able to share data so easily. It would be great to just leave an external hanging around where ever you are. George mentioned a concern of the data transfer speed. I don’t like waiting for a long time when moving or accessing files, it’s annoying. I hope it delivers.

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    Lauren Withers February 26th, 2009 at 21:26

    I think that this is a really cool product. It seems relatively easy to understand and work with. It is also could that it works with the iPhone, which is the new “top phone” to get.

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    Mike Dieckmann February 26th, 2009 at 22:58

    Seems simple enough, and like a few other people have said think it would be great for my parents because of the simplicity. Since my dad still tries to get on website by capitalizing words and leaving spaces between words in the webaddress. Might be worth the cost to make things simpler for some people

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    Brandon Barnes March 3rd, 2009 at 14:21

    The Pogoplug seems to be an interesting invention. At only $100 and no monthly fee, it could really take off due to accessibility and low cost.