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thinking of trying one of these out, as i'm running out of storage on my mac air, anybody successfully used one of these in a NAS like fashion? would be wanting to connect it up with XBMC on my fire tv, and start storing and accessing my music and video via it
if this wouldn't be suitable for this, what would anybody recommend instead? i'm running on a budget of £100 or less with a drive, so already know i'm not going to get anything premium
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I've got a pogoplug series 4 as my current NAS. It's running an Arch Linux ARM install with a couple of external USB HDDs. Some things were a little bit of a pain in the butt to set up, but the basics weren't too bad. Lots of guides out there to set things up. There's better things out there, but for $20 USD, the pogoplug was a great deal once I installed Arch on it.
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Also which model do you have? I see their is two different ones
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2014-10-20, 15:29
(This post was last modified: 2014-10-20, 16:47 by dhead.)
If you plan to use it with the stock software then I wouldn't recommend it as a NAS, though as a cloud service Pogoplug is pretty great (I tried it a couple of weeks).
If you don't mind "getting your hands dirty" then I would recommend installing Linux on the device, be advised: you actually will need to understand what you're doing and have allot of patience if you didn't had experience with Linux in the past.
I've got a few Series 4 and Mobile models doing different things on different remote locations and I can say that this is an amazing product, well designed that works 24/7 for a couple of years on my networks without issues, beats all the Chinese boards and even the Pi in terms of quality and stability.
The main limitation of the device is the 128MB RAM, if you'll start running multiple services like web server, torrent client and etc you'll reach the limit of the RAM and you'll find the most memory consumption app have been killed.
One way to bypass this limitation is to have swap on mechanical HDD (flash not recommended for swap as you'll wear it out in no time) but it'll drastically slow down the system (which isn't fast to begin with).
For basic file sharing via NFS and Samba it will serve you well.
p.s.
If I was living in the UK then I would try to contact NEWIT and ask if they can offer the Cubox-i1 for a reasonable price as the 512MB RAM would make allot of difference when running multiple services, the main limitation is that it will might have difficult powering more than one mobile HDD (without external power supply).
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Very very bad experience with popoplug, don't use it.
