@dunk, I'm sorry things aren't going so well for you so far. Let me see if I can help address some of your concerns.

>>Pogoplug pro running
>>2 hd plugged in 1.5Tb seagate and 300Gig WD passport.
>>both formatted for pogoplugs (which took a long time to figure out)

There was a problem with GUID partition tables on drives that were plugged into the Pogoplug Pro. This issue has been resolved in the 2.5.7 firmware update that was pushed out to Pogoplug Pros today, so there shouldn't be any problems figuring which filesystem/partition table works with Pogoplug Pro. FAT 32, NTFS, HFS+J, EXT2, EXT3, GUID and MBR are all supported filesystems/partition tables (respectively).

>>Macbook 2.4 64bit Snow leopard

Unfortunately, the current version of the Mac Drive App does not support the 64 bit kernel on OSX at this time.

>>First issue was the inability to download torrents over pogoplug

I will respond to this in the other thread

>>After many reboots of pogoplug, restarts of client s/w and unplugging and replugging, sometimes I can see all drives on my LAN.
>>Come back the next day, one is available, or none.
>>Maybe once I've seen one drive over the WAN.

The 2.5.7 update resolved some stability issues in certain Pogoplug Pro configurations. Please see if your drive not available issues are resolved with this update. If not, you should definitely submit a ticket with support. They will retrieve the necessary logs from your Pogoplug that will help us to identify and fix the problems you are seeing.

>>Iphone very similar, very rare to see both drives. Still cannot view any movies even over LAN.

If your drives aren't showing up in Web App or Drive App, then they won't shpw up in the iPhone app either. This would indicate a larger issue independent of the particular client you are using to access your Pogoplug drives.

Regarding not being able to play movies on iPhone: sometimes, the iPhone grows very low on memory. When this happens, it can wreak havoc in different ways for different apps. I have noticed that with the Pogoplug app, this low memory condition tends to affect playback; specifically, movies would not play. I have always been able to solve the problem by rebooting my iPhone. You should try the same and see if it fixed things for you.

>>after many hours messing with it the only conclusions I can arrive at (and using forums as input) is:
>> Pogoplug doesn't support Mac on 64bit

Correct. Unfortunately, this is unsupported at this time.

>> Pogoplug doesn't work well across multiple different machines

Without more detail on exactly what the problem is, it's difficult to understand what you mean here.

>> Doesn't support NTFS correctly

Again, details are important here. Pogoplug definitely supports NTFS. In your other post, you brought up NTFS drives appearing as FAT32. This is true only for the Windows Drive App. In Windows, the Drive App reports all files systems as FAT32. Whether or not the FAT32 file size limit is imposed on the files your are trying to copy depends on the software you are using to copy the files. For instance, using Windows Explorer to drag and drop large files to a Drive App -mounted NTFS drive will work, even though the drive is reported as FAT32. Again, I will respond to this issue more specifically in the other thread.

>> I've got a bad one

This is possible, but it's best to see if either the update fixes some of your issues, or to let support help to determine where the problem lies.

>> I'm an idiot

Certainly not! =)

I've just bought Pogoplug Pro and set it up last night. This morning my drives disappeared and since I'm at work I can't do a single thing about it. This isn't why I got Pogoplug, not a happy bunny.

It died again after running for barely 6 hours.

Well it hasn't worked for mine. As an experiment I've turned off the media scanning.

Same problems with me. Works for awhile then no drives displaying. Cannot copy files. Very slow. Pogoplug support really not much help. They can see it! Yeah - try 2 hours from now. Poof - gone! Save your money. This product is a cool concept but not reliable.

Disappearing drives.
All my drives disappeared after a short time of inactivity, it seemed to be about 4 hours, or so but every time I had t go reboot pogo plug then it would be fine.
I am thrilled to say I fixed it and interestingly enough it really wasn't anything on the pogo plug.

I looked at dhcp clients in my router. The pogo plug was not listed. Which told me that the pogo plug might not have a valid ip address anymore. It occurred to me that for some reason the pogoplu was losing the ip address when it when it went to sleep and not running dhcp discovery when it woke up to reinitialize the ip or another device had taken it's address in the meantime who knows.

Anyway I changed my dhcp lease time to forever which means my router will never give out that address to anything. The drives have not disappeared since.

I would bet money that would fix it for many of the posts I see on the forum. It's your router losing ip connection to pogo plug.

I think the frustration comes from the fact that this thing is so fantastic that we are upset when it seems to not deliver. Knock on wood, mine is working and it's exactly what I have been looking for.