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Pogoplug Backup and Sharing Device
Amazon's catalog no longer lists this product (checked 2026-11-02). The name comes from the link HN users posted.
the official pogoplug site reports 99$ for Amazon but if you search you'll see 39$: http://www.amazon.com/Pogoplug-Series-Backup-Device-Version/...
This one is 18$ http://www.amazon.com/Pogoplug-Backup-and-Sharing-Device/dp/... but it looks like the first device of the list without sata and usb3 (still good for doing some small hack[1]
Some years ago I bought a Seagate Dockstar (that was derived from the first pogoplug imho) for around 30-40$ (the street price was 80-100) and I'm still using it with Debian (nothing too fancy, just samba, transmission bt client and minidlna)
[1] NB according to this blog post http://fortysomethinggeek.blogspot.com/2013/03/pogoplug-seri... che old versions had better specs (this pogoplug has 800mhz cpu and 128mb ram, the old one was 1.2ghz like my dockstar)
I bought one of these: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GM1Q1O/?&tag=bcgpfeed-2...
It's dirt cheap ($10-20), easy to load linux on [1], and it can be a simple file server, it can run minidlna, google cloud print [2], all kinds of stuff.
800MHz is not a screamer, but most simple I/O tasks like A/V streaming and printing are a walk in the park.
[1] http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/pogoplug-series-4
[2] http://geekvisit.com/hacking-pogoplug-mobile-adding-airprint...
The dreamplug is probably closer to the pogoplug in feature set (and definitely cost!).
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GM1Q1O/?&tag=bcgpfeed-2...
It's dirt cheap ($10-20), easy to load linux on [1], and it can be a simple file server, it can run minidlna, google cloud print [2], all kinds of stuff. 800MHz is not a screamer, but most simple I/O tasks like A/V streaming and printing are a walk in the park.
[1] http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/pogoplug-series-4
[2] http://geekvisit.com/hacking-pogoplug-mobile-adding-airprint...