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Wilbur

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Is the Pogoplug able to use the new 3TB drives?

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Jon.QA Avatar
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August 6, 2010 3:18 PM

I haven't tried them but I would suspect that they would not work properly. Our recommendation at this time is that you not use them with your Pogoplug.

unkilbeeg Avatar
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August 13, 2010 8:05 PM

Is this because they are 4k sector drives?

Jon.QA Avatar
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August 14, 2010 1:06 PM

On the nose - we'll need to make a change to the Pogoplug kernel for 4k sector drives

Wilbur Avatar
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August 15, 2010 1:40 AM

Please make the changes as soon as possible.
I want to implement several pogoplugs as backup, but need the 3TB capacity.

apswartz Avatar
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August 15, 2010 11:11 PM

Wow! 3 TB drives. I need to take a moment in glorious wonder. My first HD purchase was a 20 MB hard-drive.

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August 17, 2010 8:42 AM

Glad I opt'd for the 1TB insteas

apswartz Avatar
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August 21, 2010 4:31 PM

I am using a 2TB drive, but I haven't tried the 3TB.

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October 8, 2010 8:11 PM

Wow, this is a HUGE dealbreaker for me. Too late though--I already bought PogoPlug yesterday and here I am troubleshooting why it won't detect my new Seagate 3TB that I keep EVERYTHING on: music, videos, pictures, etc. Update: now it detects it and says: "

I just got an Airport Extreme, found out it doesn't work with NTFS or exFAT and you can't reformat 3TB without huge risks (and data loss) anyway, so I bought a PogoPlug and now I STILL can't access it because it doesn't handle 3TB drives.

Now I have $300 worth of hardware, none of which serves any purpose for me at the moment.

JON.QA et al. -- PLEASE try to get this sorted! And when you can handle that, will it require a new PogoPlug device or can it be fixed via update?

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October 8, 2010 8:14 PM

sorry, left out the fact that it actually detects the drive and says:

"Drive Seagate FA GoFlex Desk on Pogoplug: You have attached a hard drive that your Pogoplug enabled device does not support. Please click here to contact customer support."

Although it DOES load the data (I got a low-on-disk-space warning), you still cannot see the files.

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October 9, 2010 12:42 PM

Hmm. Well, I finally sprung for a Pogoplug, and hooked it up to my WD 1.5G that has 4k sectors. I don't seem to be able to connect the Pogo to the service, it won't activate (but that's for a different day), however, it seems to mount the disk just fine.

I SSHed in and I can CD into the mount point and all the files seem to be there. The mount point is hidden (begins with a dot) so I don't know for sure that it will work if I ever get the service working, but it does see it.

I don't know if it matters that I repartitioned by hand to make sure the sectors were correctly aligned.

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October 30, 2010 11:23 PM

It's not exactly a dealbreaker, because I can be patient, but I second the request to add support for the 3TB drive size ASAP...

I have 12 drives, all variations on the Seagate Free Agent Desk line, ranging in size from 750 MF to 2 TB, connected to my PogoPlug through a couple of powered 7 port USB hubs. The most recent one (#13) I bought at Fry's last week ($200/3TB! Retail! Moores Law indeed!) and it's not detected. Works fine when connected to the MacBook Pro.

Got a timetable for adding support for 3TB size? Need a beta tester?

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November 10, 2010 10:32 AM

Is this fixed yet?

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November 22, 2010 5:03 AM

Hmmm, I'm not buying a Pogoplug until someone says that 3TB drives are supported.

and what about GPT partitions by the way?

Wilbur Avatar
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November 22, 2010 10:13 AM

I was the original poster back in early August, almost 4 months ago.
I have been waiting to buy any more Pogo Plugs for the 3TB limit to be fixed.
This seems like a bit long to get an update in which was already standard in the main stream Linux distributions.

Does anyone know of any other functionally similar device which support 3TB drives?

Does anyone know about the "Plug Computer 3.0" which Marvell announced back in January? Did it ever come about?

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November 28, 2010 9:39 PM

It should work fine.

I have a 1.5T drive with the 4k sectors -- I partitioned it by hand, taking care to make sure the sectors aligned properly. If you don't do that, you will probably experience big slowdowns, but with that change there doesn't seem to be a problem.

Pen Avatar
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November 29, 2010 1:25 AM

I'm loving my PP, but I would think twice about entrusting it with my only source of data, 3TB or 20MB...

Generic Member Avatar
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December 3, 2010 2:44 PM

It's pretty unbelievable that nobody has an official answer to usage of 3TB drives with the Pogo, as the 3TB drives are now pretty much for sale everywhere.
I guess I have to look elsewhere then. :/

View unverified member's comment - posted by patgadget

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December 10, 2010 1:21 PM

I just got my pogoplug in, and also purchased a 3 TB Western Digital HDD this morning. Works perfectly with it.

Wilbur Avatar
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December 11, 2010 1:41 AM

GsMumbo,
I have a first generation PogoPlug.
After reading your post, I bought a 3Tb drive and thought that my wait would be over.
Unfortunately, the PogoPlug says that the drive is not supported.
Maybe there is an update that my pogoplug needs.

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December 11, 2010 4:18 AM

GsMumbo, thanks for the information but please supply more information.

What drive is that (WD MyBook?) and what filesystem do you have on it, and what PogoPlug do you use`?

Wilbur Avatar
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December 11, 2010 4:26 AM updated: December 11, 2010 4:27 AM

I have the Seagate GoFlex
My Pogoplug is an original white brick.
The OS is v2.5.7
The drive worked fine on my Ubuntu 10.10

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December 12, 2010 9:56 AM

I'm pretty sure 3TB drives don't work, or the people from PogoPlug would have said so a long time ago..

They most likely know they have a flawed product right now, and hopefully they are working full time to get it fixed.

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December 18, 2010 12:06 PM updated: December 18, 2010 12:07 PM

Amazing. Still no word on this??

I have 4 WesternDigital 3TB USB drives waiting for someone at Pogoplug to tell me go!

Wilbur Avatar
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December 18, 2010 12:10 PM updated: December 18, 2010 12:11 PM

Pede said: I'm pretty sure 3TB drives don't work, or the people from PogoPlug would have said so a long time ago.. They most likely know they have a flawed product right now, and hopefully they are working full time to get it fixed.

I would presume, that since I first posted this back in August, when Ubuntu already had the support, that they are not working on it at all.

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