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Couple of things I'd like to touch on. First of all, I'd like to hear from other members is FAT32 corruption is an issue. I'm not sure if I remember seeing that reported here. One way or another, that's definitely an issue that should be reported to Cloud Engines so they can investigate.
In short, yes, I trust Pogoplug (very much) to keep my data safe. I have never experienced catastrophic corruption or data loss and have been using my Pogoplug to back up my music and software collection since day one. (My drive is formatted as HFS+ Journaled, by the way)
However, I never back things up only in duplicate. I back up everything in triplicate - two onsite, and, if possible, one off-site, and in different cloud services. My Pogoplug, for documents/photos/music/software, serves as one of those backups.
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After having had my Dockstar corrupt a FAT32 thumb drive (it corrupted the file allocation table), I'm quite wary of using the Pogoplug for anything other than accessing data that's been backed up elsewhere.
I'm assuming that a NTFS formatted drive would be less likely to become corrupted if something went wrong so maybe it would be safe to use NTFS formatted drives, but I would advice against FAT32 ones.
Does anyone actually use your pogoplug as a backup device (without making duplicate backups)?
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I'll point out that it got corrupted because the drive somehow got detached from the PogoPlug while the PogoPlug was writing to it. It wasn't physically detached, but something weird happened where the PogoPlug rebooted or something and never flushed out the drive writes.
Morac said: After having had my Dockstar corrupt a FAT32 thumb drive (it corrupted the file allocation table), I'm quite wary of using the Pogoplug for anything other than accessing data that's been backed up elsewhere. I'm assuming that a NTFS formatted drive would be less likely to become corrupted if something went wrong so maybe it would be safe to use NTFS formatted drives, but I would advice against FAT32 ones. Does anyone actually use your pogoplug as a backup device (without making duplicate backups)?I only use NTFS and have never had a file corruption issue. It's pretty well known that Fat32 is a fragile drive format and that the FAT is easily corrupted. For ease of use, most flash drives are formated to Fat32, but I've seen lots of them loose data when inserted into or pulled from various computers and devices. I really don't think that the PP is to blame.
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My drives are all NTFS and I have not had any issues at all. That's using 4 laptops, 1 server and 1 desktop for the last 3 years. And around 10 Usb drives of different capacity.
The drive in the Pogoplug has been fine.
yeah, no issues with me either on my pogoplug, and i have 2 pogoplugs in different locations connected together. first thing i do when i get a pen drive is format it to ntfs. no issues with copying files to it and then having active sync copy the files to other drives and locations.
I bought my PogoPlug yesterday, plugged Maxtor OneTouch with two logical partitions. Worked fine. Today, there was a power outage for 50min. After power came back up, pogoplug doesnt show the folders on my PC. I decide to unplug my Maxtor and connect directly to PC. Well, one logical partition now has to be reformatted! And the other is still doing a sector check! I think I lost all my backed up data. What happened? Typically, even with a power failure, all my USB hard drives would be ok. What just happened? Kinda not very happy losing the many gigabytes of pictures, videos, etc... This is just not good.
About a week ago I got a letter from BGE about a scheduled power outage and they recommended that we unplugged any sensitive electronic equipment during the outage. Well, I powered down all my computers and NAS devices as well as my Dockstar.
When I powered things back up, everything was fine except for my Dockstar. Somehow my Dockstar NTFS drive was corrupted. All my files and folders were gone! All my other NAS devices did not have any problems with data/drive corruption.
My guess is that I should have ejected the Dockstar drive before powering down. But this means that the drive could become corrupt during any future unscheduled power outage where I won't have advance noticed to eject before powering down.
Because of this I am now wary of storing any important data on the Pogoplug without having a backup somewhere else.
Is the Pogoplug constantly writing to the drive? Is this why it got corrupt when I powered it down without ejecting? Is this is true, can Cloud Engines modify things so it's safe to power down the Pogoplug without corrupting the data (as long as the drive isn't being accessed).
Bought the Pogoplug Pro and connected the Maxtor 3200 (500GB) to it. It has corrupted the NTFS file structure 3x now. Kinda annoying. I have a feeling it has to do with all the transcoding that is going on... all. the. time.
I certainly do not trust my data to Pogoplug. I bought the original Pogoplug when it first came out. I'm a OSX user, and have HFS+ Journaled drives. In the two years I've had my Pogoplug up, I've had to re-format my hardrive I think 4 or 5 times. Two or 3 times a year is definitely way too often to loose data.
And that's only counting the times OSX's "Disk Utility" could *NOT* repair the drive. Pogoplug has messed up one thing or another at least 10 times (sometimes because I just forgot to eject the drive using the web interface before unplugging the drive). Luckily, Disk Utility was able to repair whatever Pogoplug did in all but 4 or 5 of those times.
I used to recommend Pogoplug to people the first year, but reading all the corruption issues out there (and on this forum), and from my own experience, I no longer tell people about Pogoplug. I now only use it as a cheap NAS from time to time.
I already have one Maxtor (Seagate) FAT32 HD hooked up to my Pogoplug that works fine. Yesterday, I decided to plug in a second drive, an NTFS-formatted Western Digital MyBook HD into the Pogo. It worked for a few minutes, then went missing. After a few attempts to get it going again, it showed a checkdsk file. The drive size shows that the data is still all there, but I can't see it. Now the drive cannot be detected at all.
When I first got Pogoplug, I connected a FAT32 thumb drive and half the contents got wiped out. I used the proper eject command in all cases.
I do keep triple backups of my stuff, so no worries.
I think the Pogoplug is a very interesting device, but I truly have no idea why Pogoplug the company believes it is reasonable to require that users have to visit a website to eject the drives before powering off their devices.
The one requirement of a pogoplug network shared disk device is that it never corrupt disks short of a powerfailure, and even then, I remember 20 years ago, writing code for computers that closed files and parked heads in the event of a powerfail.
I don't know what to make of this thread -- I wish PogoPlug's developers wold drop by and discuss the issues.
I'm supposing that they maybe assumed that everyone would always have access to the internet. The admin controls should be offline.
I will say this: when the Pogoplug works, it works well. I'm just concerned that if I take off to another location that my drive will suddenly not be there when I need it, and I can't fix the issue remotely. I am starting to wonder if I should just buy a NAS.
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