Pogoplug Mobile -- WTF?

[Scott Sullivan]

On 05/02/2013 10:28 AM, Scott Sullivan wrote:
> On 05/02/2013 03:34 AM, William Park wrote:
>> Questions:
>>
>> 1.  It seems that you have to connect to their website while it's
>>      connected, so that they can locate the device and "activate" it.
>>      What if they want to do other things on my computer?
>
> So, the pogoplug devices are a basically a small arm computer that's job
> is to get your storage devices onto the internet. From there their
> software (both on the plug and in the cloud) takes away the hard part of
> NAT and port forwarding to make is accessible to anywhere.

William,

I re-read this question and I'm not quite sure I understand it any more.

 From my understanding, and use of the service, the only thing they do 
on 'your' computer is present a website. All the real work is done on 
the device and the cloud service providing the website.

Was that what you were asking about?


In more recent history they now offer a version of their software that 
you can run on 'your' computer to make its contents accessible like 
their pogoplug 'hardware' devices.

To give an example. I have a few of the GoFlexNet devices, which was a 
Seagate branded Pogoplugs for use with Seagate's GoFlex hard drives.

I ended up just cutting some acrylic in order to use bare drives.
http://openrebel.ss.org/images/2011-07-29-GoFlexNet-HDD-stablizers.jpg

Anyways, I have this setup at my Boyfriends. It shows up as a samba 
share locally, and then I can access it through the web interface from 
anywhere to drop files to him. No dink'ing with firewalls, just dropped 
in and worked.

If I was to use their android, iOS, desktop or web client I could access 
those files from anywhere. I could move the Pogoplug to the office and 
still access them from anywhere. No config changes required.

They really are only selling you some hardware and big helping of 
convince. If you don't use their newer cloud storage, they don't even 
hold your data, which was one of the selling points.

-- 
Scott Sullivan
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