Just got a pogoplug video. Fan noise is totally out of whack and too loud for this product. I thought I got a bad unit until reading similar complaints. Pogoplug what is the plan or recommendation to remedy?

The fan noise is definitely a consideration as to where you locate your PPV. Fortunately for me, I could locate it in my equipment closet directly behind my computer/desk area. I have a cable-passthrough in the sheetrock so that made it easier.

I agree that no one would want to locate this next to their computer because of the noisy fan. Again, IMHO...how did this obvious problem make it to a product that is supposed to be consumer-ready?

when i asked pogo support, they told fan is not tied to linux and is mechanically separate. if you google fan control and linux, if they are tied, you could switch off fan using linux control. but if it constantly on, it never switches off,

i returned my pogo video and got newer pogoplug p21. it has no fan and is super quiet and awesome for my needs. music streaming. i would have liked video but my main goal is streaming 100 G of music to android and iphone. newer android app is expected in may exactly like iphone as per their support

It is loud enough to annoy non techie people. If you are used to spending days in office labs, server rooms, you probably dont care. If you have kids doing homework in same quiet room as pogoplug video, it is not bearable. i wonderhow pogoplu QA dept works. i am not sure what use case they thought of when releasing the video product. if it is locked away in a basement, no issues. i am in an apt and could not bear it! so even though i got 70 dollar discount from buy.com returned it

Here's the techie's lowdown:

The mainboard is essentially identical to that of the Pro and V3, as a matter of cost, redesigning the board to handle the extra power load of the fan directly would have been bit much, considering every step of the manufacturing would need to be altered.

The fan is connected directly to the power input, and blows across the heat sink on the video chip. This small mini-PCIe cannot draw bus power at 12V because the bus is only 3.3V, so powering via the card itself is absolutely out. Monitoring? Since CE didn't design this card, they have no controll over its components, and thus again, neigh absolutely out.

Yes, a 12VDC 0.48A fan is loud but at full bore, that video chip is doing more work that the CPU can do in 3x the time frame, and it's going to need something to disperse that heat.

Future product line revisions (V4, as an example) may change this fact as they may be able to influence, or plan around the facts they have now.

But for now: I'm sorry to say, unless you want it to melt when you start streaming you're non-optimized for $target_device$ video, the fan is required, and there is nothing they can reasonably do to directly monitor the temperature so the fan has to stay on.

I swear the designer of the hardware must be a blonde ditzy chick or someone who got their degree online or from the University of Phoenix.

Pink color? Upside down USB ports? Loud fan? The web interface is a little embarrassing.

This is designed as a desktop device the loud fan is just bad design to keep it in the same formfactor and marketed as a desktop device...........