Did you get any answers? Is it possible to do it?
Categories: Hard Drives / Storage
Most of the time I find I like to access my computer's internal hdd for some important files, pics, videos, etc. In fact, since high capacity internal drives are easily available, I don't usually keep ext hdd. Would you be providing access to a PC, Mac, or whatever computer, in future?
- Anonymous
I don't think that's the idea. The idea of a pogoplug is to share data between multiples systems, inside and outside of your house. If you have everything you need on your internal drive, then a pogoplug probably isn't for you.
Joe
I think the original poster probably was wanting some way to have remote access to his PC's internal drive from outside home. Remote access to the Pogoplug-connected drives is the top feature of the Pogoplug, in addition to extra storage...but for those with intenal drives in their PC's something like "go to my pc" or other remote access is probably the way.
I think the fact that there is a licensed OS on internal primary hard drives is a sticking point for letting them be connected "worldwide" in a way that might violate single licenses or some such. This said in light of the "sharing" aspect of the Pogoplug. I don't imagine this is a direction Pogoplug would go in. They've got a cool device as it is.
Sounds like a security nightmare looking for a place to happen.
I'd keep on the pogoplug drives only what I think I can afford to lose in the event it was somehow compromised. But throwing your PC's drive in there too, and whatever else on your internal network would be risky to me.
Resurrecting this thread as I want to point out there are other reasons this would be very useful.
First, any computer with disk space should be a candidate for a hard drive, whether using SMB or NFS or AFP or whatever (think bonjour). The usefulness of any data on these drives is exactly the same as any drives someone might plug into the pogoplug and these days computers come with gigs and gigs of space that could be going unused. I don't think security is a big issue if you explicitly have to configure the plug to use those shares. Certainly no more than before you introduced the pogoplug into the picture. So having the pogoplug be able to scan the network for shares and expose them as drives seems like a very useful feature to me.
But since the pogoplug is essentially just a low power consuming linux server I just bought one instead of a sheevaplug to give it a try and compare them. I figured If the normal pogo functionality was useful it would be a bonus, but I can do everything I want without it. In this case I'll simply be using it to connect to an existing NAS device to do some backups of files on it since the NAS device doesn't support keeping daily versions of important files. I may use it to rsync the important files offsite as well. I don't even plan on plugging in a local drive to it (unless I am forced to).
charles

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