Hey Rob,

There isn't a max file size per se, but anything that large is highly unlikely to succeed. Consider this - a Gigabyte is 8192 megabits - so if you had a fast cable modem advertising 6 mbps upload speed (which will probably get you around 1 mbps sustained under good conditions), your upload time would be about 6 and a half hrs. Even if you got the theoretical maximum, it would still be over an hour; that's probably too long to try to upload w/out some help.

I'd recommend an application designed for large file transfers; one that can survive interruptions in connectivity. For downloads from your Pogoplug drive I like Free Download manager http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/ - simple, clean and best of all, free. For uploads to your Pogoplug drive I'd suggest a backup / sync package. So far I've had good results with SyncToy, Robosync, and Rsync, and Alway Sync; and of course, the Pogoplug drive application - all of which are also free.

I'd say a good rule of thumb is no more than 20ish minutes for uploading or downloading is safe - I've been able to move as much as 500 megabytes over 45 minutes, but I wouldn't recommend it - hope this helps!

Best,
Jon Odo
QA Manager
Cloud Engines

Rob, as soon as I get my Pogoplug, I'm off to seeing what can be done with rsync and getting little command-line GNU apps and servers running on the Pogoplug. I've done some research and have compiled some ARM binaries, now I just need a unit to test things on. A little background: I'm from Firefly Linux, but have also worked on Neowin Shift Linux and was previously a writer at Neowin (so I'll review the Pogoplug once I get it and see if Neowin staff posts it), and have spent too much time getting Linux and command-line apps running in too many places: iPhone, Apple TV, netbooks, etc. etc. Hopefully I'll have some good additions (but they'll most definitely be unsupported) to the Pogoplug's capabilities.

That post came out to be much longer than I originally intended! :/

FreeNAS would be an option, but it only comes in x86 and amd64 architectures, not ARM, which the Pogoplug uses. We can't just steal the web interface either as it's pretty tightly integrated with FreeNAS, BUT, we might be able to get Webmin running on ARM.