My pogogoplug will be shipped this week thanks for this advance review! Rumor has it Sheeva plug cost will go down and will wait a bit on that and decide to purchase it. I'm thinking of setting up a power strip for plug computing like a shoe box data center :)
On 6/1/09, andrelst <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
