Pogoplug Mobile -- WTF?

[William Park]

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 11:11:25AM -0400, Scott Sullivan wrote:
> 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?

I was scratching my head... Why do they need me to connect/activate the
device?  All I want is to access its attached USB disk over the local
network.

Background: Right now, all my disks (both in use and backup) are in my
tower.  It's the cheapest initial cost.  But, having the tower on all
the time, electricity bill is slowly eating up that saving.  8-bay NAS
is ridiculously expensive.
-- 
William
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