Got the pogoplug(pplug) from Cloud Engines yesterday. the one that will replace my aging NSLU2 mini NAS. This is an understatement since you can install additional Linux applications like mysql, nmap etc. on top of it. you can ssh to the device as well. Setup was ridiculously easy. go to the website, create a username/password and that's it. Literally done within 10 minutes.
At first, It was disappointing and about to return it. No SD slot, No mini USB, and half the memory at 256Mb compared to the sheevaplug dev kit(FYI, dev kit runs ubuntu out of the box.)? A bit hot for my taste, and i'm guessing it's the same as the sheeva dev kit. Looking at modding a fan to cool it. Cheaply priced at $99, but shipping at 50% of the product? After some few test and working on it, it was not that bad and i'm keeping it. After a few hours, samba, NFS, mysql, lighttpd, nmap, elinks, coreutils, dnstracer, htop, file, gawk, lsof, ltrace, vim, net-tools, ntop, privoxy, procps, psmisc, psutils, rsync, screen, strace, tcpdump, tcpflow, wakelan, whois is running and installed part on the 512Mb flash(FS is jffs2)... and taking only 60MB? amazing. This without having plugged in a USB HDD or flash drive yet. Plugging in a USB HDD, it detected my NTFS drive using the ntfs-3g driver via fuse. ext2/3 and fat are native modules. speed was not shabby on a $99 appliance... 14-17 MB/s from pplug to windows 2003 and only at 60% CPU usage on the ARM 1.2Ghz cpu. For a perspective, WHS (Windows Home Server) on Athlon64 3000 (1.8Ghz) gives me a throughput of 20-24MB/s without tweaks on gigabit. A pplug browser based application and native software is available. the small software is available for Linux, windows and the iphone. the software can be installed on any PC. At home, work or anywhere, and you access the contents of your harddrive. The next day while waiting for the wife to buy groceries, tested the pogoplug software on the iphone via GSM 3G. input the username/password combo and that was it. Accessed my mp3, excel, text files, word documents and jpeg pictures. Please note... my initial test shows it's not https but goes to http on the wire. They are saying https will be supported in the future. All in all, impressive when you consider it is after all a first gen device and software. I'm looking forward for additional updates in the future. regards, Andre | http://www.varon.ca On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:28 PM, thad <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/12/09, Miguel Paraz <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:32 AM, thad <[email protected]> wrote: >> > sheeva plug for $99 looks good to begin with, has anybody tried this? >> >> >> >> looks great: >> http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-22-sheevaplug-dev-kit.aspx >> >> with an 1.2 Ghz ARM9 - it runs on wall power after all! 1.2 Ghz is too >> fast for mobile devices. >> >> But... Good Luck in finding a local vendor for these. > > I think I can easily order it here :). I'm thinking to get pogoplug > and attached usb hdd for file/storage backup and sharing. And it seems > to have a growing community of users and hackers as well. > > http://snipurl.com/hwyy5 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
