Thanks for your reply madman999 - some useful information in there :)

I only seem to have issues when the "Processing media" message is displayed, and that happens whenever I add media. The problem is that media is part of what I back up!

I don't need it to be processed; I just want it on the drive for backup/restore purposes. Basically what happens is, I backup some media, it starts "processing media" and then everything slows down, making the actual backup process almost impossible.

The only workaround I've come up with is to zip/compress the files and copy that zip file to the drive. It seems then that it doesn't trigger any "media processing". This is far from ideal as you can imagine!

Is there not a way of disabling "media processing" all together? I thought the options I'd set would have taken care of that but it appears not.

Any ideas?

madman999 said: have you powered off and on the pogoplug since you made the change? maybe the change hasn;t refreshed or registered correctly. if you set them all to never, it should have fixed the issue but then again, the general pogoplug behavior is to be flaky by default.

I've turned the unit off and on just the once but it still persists. Guess there's no harm in trying again!

It's a shame it's not a little more stable... there's so much potential here but as it stands, this is falling short of my expectations sadly.

It's almost as if it's trying to do too much! I'd rather the software conquer the basics before trying to do a load of fancy stuff it clearly isn't cut out for just yet.

How frequent are the firmware updates?

madman999 said: not frequent at all unfortunately. i haven;t seen one since i got mines earlier this year. you;d think there would be some sort of performance update atleast.... most of the pogoplug units are actually discontinued for some reason so no support is expected in this area.

In that case, I'm glad I didn't spend too much on it!

Thanks for your help :)

madman999 said:  what type of hard drives do you have connected to your unit? hopefully a fast spinning 7200 rpm SATA drive connected via a generic USB enclosure, right? not one of those so called "name brand" like the Western Digital Mybook or equivalent Seagate, Iomega or Hitachi. usually the drives installed in those units are cheap OEM(1 year warranty only) green, 5400 rpm drives with poor read and write speeds.

Unfortunately the latter (it's a Seagate)! To be fair, it fits the bill when connected directly over USB 2.0 so I had no need to change it but perhaps I should now it's all pogoplugged up! 

That said, when the thing isn't "processing media" it performs very well. I can stream HD films and the like (I did it to check but don't plan on this being a regular use). I'll be annoyed if I invested in some extra hardware (SATA drive + USB enclosure) only to find it's just as sluggish when in the "processing media" state!