Wow, you got a great price on the DockStar! Hope you like it, looking forward to the results you get in your setup.
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I ran into some issues with the performance of the Mac Pogoplug application when doing heavy-duty simultaneous read/writes. I worked through support for a few day, who finally recommended that I return the Pogoplug and go get a Dockstar or a GoFlex Net, either of which support mounting via Samba which hopefully will stand up to the load.
I have got a Dockstar on order from Amazon (CompUSA is the actual seller) for $29 right now. This even beats the $44 I paid for the Pogoplug from buy.com a week or so ago. I'll post here with the results.
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October 15, 2010 10:38 AM
October 21, 2010 8:10 AM
updated: October 21, 2010 8:11 AM
OK, I got my Dockstar last night. I set it up onto the Pogoplug account that I already had. I then plugged in the same Maxtor 2.5" external drive I had been using for the Pogoplug torture tests. I mounted the volume using command-K in the finder.
I tried my finder copy test (select about 6G of files from the mounted drive, then copy them into a new folder on that drive). This always caused the Pogoplug application to crash, but the Samba-mounted Dockstar worked flawlessly, twice! It's not super-fast, but it works 100% of the time (so far) versus 0% of the time with the Pogoplug application and the Pogoplug.
I'm doing some more testing now to see what the speeds are like to and from the Dockstar.
(By the way, it's still $29 at Amazon)
October 24, 2010 3:49 PM
Still happy with the Dockstar. I'm going to move my Drobo onto it soon so I can put the Drobo in another room. I have done a fair bit of torture testing and it's fast enough, and rock solid. Finder copy of 100MB from a Mac Mini to the Dockstar = 16s, 100MB from the Dockstar to the Mac Mini = 13s. This is 6MB/s or more, which on 100M Ethernet isn't too bad. I don't need any more speed than that for what I want (media storage to feed iTunes/AppleTV).
October 25, 2010 6:59 AM
Did you return your PP through buy.com? That is how I got mine also...although I'm not sure if I still have the box or not :\
December 16, 2010 9:10 PM
Thanks for sharing. The flakiness of the PogoPlug / Drobo combo is killing me. If I can find a workable replacement, I'll give away to the PogoPlug.
December 17, 2010 12:32 PM
SimplyDan said: Thanks for sharing. The flakiness of the PogoPlug / Drobo combo is killing me. If I can find a workable replacement, I'll give away to the PogoPlug.This doesn't help your Drobo problem, but as an anecdote I returned my PPPro several weeks ago and bought a GoFlex Net. This has been working almost 100% since I got it. I had one glitch a couple of weeks ago when I lost a folder and had to repair the disk with Disk Utility. Normally I'd be annoyed to have to do that, but compared to the performance of the PPPro, that's a fantastic improvement.
January 1, 2011 11:03 PM
Flaky is totally accurate for this PogoPlugPro junk.... I have three WD-2TB drives connected to mine and they have all now disappeared.... cant get them to show up.... it is slow... and now, completely worthless to me. This entire system from hardware to software wasnt ready for market and deserves to die a painful corporate death.... I/we've been had and Im returning mine to the place I bought this crap.
January 15, 2011 6:12 AM
updated: January 15, 2011 6:15 AM
I am afraid I have to agree. left my new Pogoplug Pro to chew on my 2TB drive for a week and guess what, it cannot find the drive. On my Mac using disk utility the drive cannot be repaired. I had eead these horror stories here already so experimented with a copy of my dat. Thank God. The Pogoplug is terribly slow and totally unreliable I am afraid.
Won't be spending any more time on it I think. Sharing from Dropbox or MobileMe is way more reliable and quicker and for MobileMe, that's saying something about the slowness of PogoPlug
January 17, 2011 5:18 AM
Using a PPro with samba and AFP now. When I first got my Pro, drives kept getting corrupt and could not even manually mount drives. Stabilized after 2.5.9 update and repaired drive. Samba is good, if you have a Mac AFP is better (faster). Be careful when disconnecting drives from pogoplug and eject them first. I noticed that my index files were the ones getting corrupted initially.
January 19, 2011 12:52 AM
It is the HFS+ drive still connected tot the PogoPro that becomes invisible after days of indexing and then after connecting to a Mac according to Drive Utility is beyond repair. The process of creating index files may well have corrupted the drive. There is no way for me to tell now is there. And you cannot safely eject a drive the PogoPro no longer displays as connected now can you?
Does not seem to happen to a 320 GB Fat 32 USB drive I connected as well. That is just incredibly slow. Other than that, how do you use SAMBA or AFP instead of the PoGo utility or the web interface. That option is just not there. Is there a setting I have missed?
In summary, in its present form the PogoPro is pretty much useless.
January 19, 2011 2:17 AM
updated: January 19, 2011 2:33 AM
A bunch of us (actually, large communities) use the pogoplug as just a linux arm computer. When used in that fashion, it is pretty reliable and rock solid. I use an intermediate solution on the PPro which is Optware, It consists of packages (like Samba, AFP) that supplements the built-in Busybox Linux that comes with the PPro. Unfortunately, you do need to know Linux.
I use a journaling system Ext3 that is native to Linux and works quite well. OSX systems can mount this through MacFUSE.
So using optware, I installed Samba for my Windows computers, and AFP for my Macs. I also installed Avahi with AFP so the drives just show up on the left sidebar of Finder under Shared and makes it easy to mount. I also turned on a setting which allows time machine to use the drives. From using both methods, AFP seems to be faster than Samba.
Since it is over a network, the Mac does not care what filesystem the PPro is using (actually underneath OSX is a unix derivative (BSD) just like Linux).
If you are uncomfortable with using Linux, Peter the Administrator, mentioned in another post that the Cloudstor is coming out soon. The Cloudstor holds two Sata drives and has Time Machine functionality built in (Buffalo Technology had done the above procedure for you). Sell you PPro on ebay and get this.
Plugapps is also trying to set up an installer for the Linux-naive to do the same thing, which they will release hopefully soon.
By the way, the process I mentioned of letting cloud engines perform the 2.5.9 upgrade and fixing the drive worked for me and others. Ejecting drives before disconnecting them from the pogoplug is just good practice to keep them from getting corrupted and was just a general tip for everyone.
January 19, 2011 5:28 PM
updated: January 20, 2011 1:11 AM
I was just informed by WarheadsSE that Plugapps can already be installed by chroot http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5?title=PlugApps:Pogoplug_Pro_Chroot
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January 30, 2011 4:46 PM
WillytheKid: For me the part that made it unusable was connecting it to Drobo with roughly 1 TB in roughly 200,000 files. If you want to share a much smaller number of files and much smaller total size, it may work just fine for you.
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