One of the biggest advantages of the hardware is that it is "always-on," and lives as a separate device from your main PC/Mac. Meaning that if you go on vacation or a work trip, you can turn off your more power hungry computers and just stream your files from the dedicated Pogoplug.

Also, the Pogoplug BIZ hardware comes with some special benefits you may or may not use, depending on your role at work.

Peter Redmer
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Tedology,

I agree with Peter, not having to leave my computer powered on is a big advantage of having a dedicated PP device. Also, lots of folks these days have only a laptop computer, which is great for mobile computing but not a great cloud server platform, so the dedicated PP device is a better solution there as well.

I also like having the dedicated PP device because it provides me the option of backing up my medio (1 copy on my PC, and one on the PP device). Note: This is not meant to say that the PP is designed as an NAS or backup device, but copying archive copies to\from the PP is a nice advantage.

The software solution does have one significant advantage: It's generally easier to copy your media (from other sources) to the PC vs doing across the LAN. That said, when I have a large amount of data to my to the HDD on my dedicated PP device, I simply dismount the HDD, plug it into my PC, tranfer the data, then re-attach it to the PP.

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