Thalaivar said: rsriram22 said: just spent $39.99 at seagate's site to get this gadget .. boohoo cant cancel it either...
Well, I paid $35 for it couple of days back from Seagate. Too bad. Also not sure if this one is a new or refurb.1 Sale is usually pretty good about listing things as refurbished, and I don't see anything on the page for today's deal that makes me think it is.
rameshms1
New Member
posted: Aug. 20, 2010 @ 9:34a
Thanks OP. Got one more.
@hook13, I have connected 3 drives and each one appears as a separate drive.
FYI. There is a way to make the drives available on the n/w without having a pogoplug account (See reviews for the Dockstar unit on Amazon)
Thanks OP. Seems like a neat gadget. Anybody knows if plugged in (top connector) FreeAgent drive spins all the time or goes to sleep and stops after inactivity period? I want to keep this thing on all the time and this feature is important to me.
I have one of these and the drive does spins down but then when you want to access if after long time it does take couple of seaconds to spin back up again.
hook13
Senior Member
posted: Aug. 20, 2010 @ 10:02a
Directions for home network server....can anyone dumb this down another level? do you place this file on a seperate flash/usb drive or on all drives attached to the unit? how do you create a .ceid file? just save the text from notepad as .ceid? I don't want to use the software that comes w/ this dock-
Plug your USB drive into your computer, format it (preferably with NTFS) and create a file on it named .ceid
Using notepad, or your favorite text editor, put these lines in the file (replacing yoursharename with a name of your own choosing). Note the mode=rw allows reading and writing.
Plug the usb drive into the Dockstar, and you’re all set. The drive will be available as \\fadsMMMMMM\yoursharename (where MMMMMM are the last 6 letters and numbers of the Dockstar’s mac address, which is on the label on the bottom).
WHOA! Says "Includes Pogoplug Internet file sharing service - no subscription or additional fees required."
I remember when this thing was on woot.com a little while back it had Pogoplug included as well. I hope this is true, I just bought one now after reading this.
Lifetime Pogoplug or 1 year? The woot deal had full lifetime. I already have 2 of these (Bricked one, oops) and a sheevaplug. These devices are the ultimate mini computers. The case comes apart rather easily and it doesn't look like it'd be too hard to hack into your own box.
save your frustration order from Seagate. this company charges your card right away and half the time never ships your order. only once you ask about it do they refund your card..stay away.
Reminor said: Thanks OP. Seems like a neat gadget. Anybody knows if plugged in (top connector) FreeAgent drive spins all the time or goes to sleep and stops after inactivity period? I want to keep this thing on all the time and this feature is important to me.
Drive spins down after a period of inactivity. I don't remember if the spindown time was configurable tho.
DarkScout said: Lifetime Pogoplug or 1 year? The woot deal had full lifetime. I already have 2 of these (Bricked one, oops) and a sheevaplug. These devices are the ultimate mini computers. The case comes apart rather easily and it doesn't look like it'd be too hard to hack into your own box.
If you don't have a serial cable, try that first to get into the uboot loader (I spliced a Nokia DKU-5 (for level shifting 5V -> 3.3V) to an Xbox 360 DVD Drive Power Cable, unless you'd rather solder it). If that doesn't work, there's always JTAG (pinouts posted @ plugapps forum). But, for $23 it might not be worth the hassle and you can send the borked one my way!
hook13 said: Directions for home network server....can anyone dumb this down another level? do you place this file on a seperate flash/usb drive or on all drives attached to the unit? how do you create a .ceid file? just save the text from notepad as .ceid? I don't want to use the software that comes w/ this dock-
Plug your USB drive into your computer, format it (preferably with NTFS) and create a file on it named .ceid
Using notepad, or your favorite text editor, put these lines in the file (replacing yoursharename with a name of your own choosing). Note the mode=rw allows reading and writing.
Plug the usb drive into the Dockstar, and you’re all set. The drive will be available as \fadsMMMMMMyoursharename (where MMMMMM are the last 6 letters and numbers of the Dockstar’s mac address, which is on the label on the bottom).
1) The .ceid goes in the root directory. Yes, you can edit it notepad. I had a bit of a problem getting this tho work the first time around. Here is how I remember how I got it to work:
1) Turn on the server, add your drive. Server will put a .ceid file in the root directory, and also create a folder with some files in it. 2) Turn off the server (un-plug it) and take the drive out, attach it to your computer. 3) Edit the .ceid drive with the above. 4 Plug it back into the seagate
Can someone tell how fast the real network transfer speed for this one? One review mentioned 60kb/s and specs say Gigabit ethernet. What is in reality?
And another though. This gadget is running Linux ( per ssome reviews), can USB ports can be used for print server?
This is gigabit network connect - but the drives connected at USB 2 speed. This is a device that you can network multiple thumb drives very easily.
Good info in this thead concerning .ceid file. You can also set the windows share through pogoplug, but it seems a lot want to get raw and to the point (and understand the "magic").
Picked it up for 2 bucks more at Newegg a few months back. This has been on sale for about $25 (with shipping) from Woot, Newegg, and Buy.com for a single day - or until soldout.
Ooops said: Can someone tell how fast the real network transfer speed for this one? One review mentioned 60kb/s and specs say Gigabit ethernet. What is true?
And another though. This gadget is running Linux ( per ssome reviews), can USB ports can be used for print server?
Yes, it has gigabit, but if you're using the pogo service and are streaming OUTSIDE of your house, it depends on the UPLOAD speed of your internet connection.
Now, I can't speak for internal network speed using the (default) pogo software, but I can transfer inside my gigabit network at >200Megabits/s (>27MegaBytes/s) using the plugapps distro from a drive formatted as ext3.
The pogo software cannot act as a print server as-is (no drivers included) and although I'm not using mine for a print server, I'm sure you could do it with plugapps. In fact, it might be 'do-able' with the pogo software, I just don't know.
i havent been keeping up with these technologies. i still have an old Linksys slug for my nas at home. is this basically a hacked slug to allow internet streaming?
DarkScout said: Lifetime Pogoplug or 1 year? The woot deal had full lifetime. I already have 2 of these (Bricked one, oops) and a sheevaplug. These devices are the ultimate mini computers. The case comes apart rather easily and it doesn't look like it'd be too hard to hack into your own box.
PhDeez said: Ooops said: The pogo software cannot act as a print server as-is (no drivers included) and although I'm not using mine for a print server, I'm sure you could do it with plugapps. In fact, it might be 'do-able' with the pogo software, I just don't know.
I just contacted Pogoplug and they stated that free lifetime subscription will be activated soon. So it's not publicly released but they are switching over to full lifetime on the dockstar.
Here is the reply email that I receive from CS.
"Thank you for contacting Pogoplug Support.
This change was made recently.
Rest assured all Dockstar subscriptions will be upgraded to an Unlimited Lifetime Subscription. However, at this time, I do not have an exact timeline for this upgrade.
I am closing this ticket but feel free to contact Pogoplug in the future.
Enjoy Dockstar and (soon to be unlimited) Pogoplug Service -AdamC"
maddiebeagle said: Thanks, OP, me and my Paypal account just purchased one.
Does anyone know if I can host a very simple (static content/publicly accessible) website off of one of these, and maybe an old 32MB thumbdrive?
Thanks in advance! I am using it as a webserver running lighttpd and PHP. The web contents are pretty complicated, but the speed is ok. One of my web is to search about 1000 files and the contents in them, which takes about 2-3 seconds.
jayliu
New Member
posted: Aug. 20, 2010 @ 2:34p
Actually, you get two choices (when you install the application)
Option 1: each drive show up as independent drive letter Option 2: show up as a single drive letter say P:\ and under P:\ you see each HDD as a folder
I dont think this is option, but does anyone know if you can simply plug this into existing pc and have it recognize the drive(s) on it or to somehow point it to those drives. I have external , but my 2tb with media stuff is on internal hooked up to AV.
fyi, i apparently had theft of my credit card info etc... shortly after buying this from them. Only internet purchase I had made on that card, had 1 only other local charge 15 days prior to this purchase,and a total of 2 charges within 30 the days prior to this. Who knows.
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