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I know that Pogoplug is designed to work with any external drive, but can anyone provide some recommendations for drives that they've had good luck with so far? Are there any drives that have problems working with Pogoplug? I'd probably be interested in a 750GB-1TB drive.
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April 23, 2009 7:50 PM
I have a WD 120G that works flawlessly. I would recommend any of the WD brands. I have tried using very old 3.5" HD's with a generic HD enclosure with little success. That is basically because of the way newer HDs spin down as opposed to how the old ones couldn't really do it correctly.
If you stick with the newer stuff you should have no problems.
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April 27, 2009 12:30 PM
Sounds great gents - thanks for the recommendations. I'm going to try it with my Maxtor 500GB first, but I'm betting I'll probably purchase an extra drive specifically to use with the Pogoplug. I'll keep everyone updated!
May 7, 2009 8:48 AM
Of most of my generic USB cases, few of them worked. I highly recommend name brand HDs.
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May 7, 2009 9:46 AM
Any external HD should work fine if it works fine on your computer. I'm using a WD250 MyPassport Essential portable drive and it's being bus powered. It works fine without issue. I may be looking for a bigger drive in the near future if they get Time Machine support working and when I fill up my other drive as I'm ripping my entire DVD collection for my Apple TV.
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May 7, 2009 2:28 PM
I'm using a Fantom FD G-Force Hard Drive - GF1000EU with my pogoplug. It has been working fine for the past several months.
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May 8, 2009 10:06 PM
Quake97 said: Any external HD should work fine if it works fine on your computer.
I am still not sold on the old hard drives and generic enclosures working just fine.
I probably need to do a few more tests with the latest release to be sure. But in beta there was definetly a problem.
May 11, 2009 1:14 PM
Anyone plug a Drobo into it yet? I'm know it's been said it'll work, but I've had issues with my Drobo on Linux in the past using FUSE/NTFS-3G, which I believe the Pogoplug uses for R/W access on NTFS drives.
I intend on putting a 1TB generic "iMicro" drive/enclosure on it though.
http://www.memorylabs.net/usexen1tb10s.html
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May 23, 2009 10:27 PM
pagesix1536,
Kinda as an FYI the same folks that host this Site, Capable Networks, also hosts a Drobo site. http://www.drobospace.com/
I would also love to aee your report on how that 1TB generic "iMicro" drive/enclosure works for you.
May 24, 2009 5:40 AM
I bought a generic usb enclosure with a built in USB hub. I put a 320gb drive into it. Works just fine. Also have a 1TB Fantom Drive plugged into one of the hub ports. Everything works no problem. I did have a couple issues with earlier versions of the software recognizing the drives correctly, but that all seems fixed now.
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May 24, 2009 12:35 PM
Currently, I'm using a 20 GB laptop drive (not sure of the brand) in a small, portable enclosure and it works great.
I'm planning on eventually hooking up my 500 GB Maxtor OneTouch, but I'll have to disable journaling before I do so (I'm on a Mac.)
June 4, 2009 12:38 AM
I just received my Pogoplug in the mail two days ago and the setup was a snap, as advertised. I sent out a few invites for family to view photos and got complaints back about it not working. Within 24 hours of setting it up, something had gone wrong with at least my hard drive. My 1TB Fantom GreenDrive was no longer visible through the Pogoplug browser and will not show up anywhere when directly connected to my Mac, Disk Utility included. It does light and spin, so it's not a power issue and I've tried several USB cables; but no luck.
Suggestions? Or is it just time to explore the warranty?
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June 6, 2009 9:25 PM
Definitely your hard drive J, but it could be the enclosure. Either way, it's a warranty problem IMO. This wasn't PogoPlug's fault that's for certain, as it doesn't do anything special to your hard drive, just opens it up like a normal computer would.
June 9, 2009 12:20 AM
So I did get my Fantom GreenDrive to show up in Disk Utility (just had to wait longer than usual), but it still won't show up on my Pogoplug. I've tried 5 USB flash drives (each a different brand) and an old iBook internal HDD I put in a USB case; all of these show up attached directly to my Mac desktop, but not visible through my.pogoplug.com. Any idea what is going on?
June 14, 2009 7:22 PM
I have the following configuration on mine:
http://www.sansdigital.com/towerraid/tr4ub.html
I currently have 2 x 1TB WD HDD's and 2 x 500GB WD HDD's.
It runs awesome.
June 24, 2009 2:08 AM
updated: June 24, 2009 2:09 AM
I'm using a StarTech dock with a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 GB SATA drive. Works fine!
I have the StarTech model with eSATA as well as USB ports but they have a USB-only model as well.
June 25, 2009 1:32 AM
im serving a USB hub with a bunch of compact flash cards+SD cards does anyone here think its cost effective to just go with a bigbad external HD > 500GB for the long run?
June 25, 2009 6:38 PM
updated: June 25, 2009 9:19 PM
I had a couple of older 200GB Maxtor drives that I wanted to add to my PogoPlug, but did not want to spend as much on a case as I would buying a new external 500GB drive. I found these cheap cases at MonoPrice. They worked great...
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=103&cp_id=10305&cs_id=1030...
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June 25, 2009 9:17 PM
Jimmy,
Great idea and usage for older HDs.
jowang, I would recommend Jimmy's idea and if you don't have any a 500GB/USB HD is fairly cheap these days. From about $65 on up.
June 27, 2009 2:01 AM
Jimmy, nice find. I have an old 100GB I can pull from a Pentium III. Hows the noise level and power consumption on running these 3.5 IDE's versus buying one of them small USB HDs BC suggested?
June 29, 2009 3:13 PM
I don't have a way to measure power consumption, but the cases do get fairly warm. They are aluminum, which helps with cooling, as they do not have fans. I suspect the noise has more to do with the drive you put in them, as they don't really have anything built in to muffle the noise level. Mine are no louder than any average hard drive in a PC case. You pretty much get what you pay when comparing them to other encloses on the market.
I will say that they seemed a little fragile when inserting the drives. It's not something that you would want to be swapping drives in and out of all the time. Also, out of the two of them, one was much easier to put the drive in, the other seemed like the internal wires were just a tad short.
With all that said, I'm happy with what I got for the price I paid.
jonwang said:
Jimmy, nice find. I have an old 100GB I can pull from a Pentium III. Hows the noise level and power consumption on running these 3.5 IDE's versus buying one of them small USB HDs BC suggested?
I don't have a way to measure power consumption, but the cases do get fairly warm. They are aluminum, which helps with cooling, as they do not have fans. I suspect the noise has more to do with the drive you put in them, as they don't really have anything built in to muffle the noise level. Mine are no louder than any average hard drive in a PC case. You pretty much get what you pay when comparing them to other encloses on the market.
I will say that they seemed a little fragile when inserting the drives. It's not something that you would want to be swapping drives in and out of all the time. Also, out of the two of them, one was much easier to put the drive in, the other seemed like the internal wires were just a tad short.
With all that said, I'm happy with what I got for the price I paid.
July 5, 2009 9:58 AM
I have a new Maxtor external hard drive, but it requires two USB connections, one for data, one for power. Does the pogoplug have two USB ports, or do you use a USB Hub attached to the pogoplug?
July 5, 2009 12:43 PM
The PogoPlug only has one USB, you'll have to use a powered hub for the drive, or you could buy an iPod (or other) USB AC plug.
Brian said:
I have a new Maxtor external hard drive, but it requires two USB connections, one for data, one for power. Does the pogoplug have two USB ports, or do you use a USB Hub attached to the pogoplug?
The PogoPlug only has one USB, you'll have to use a powered hub for the drive, or you could buy an iPod (or other) USB AC plug.
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