Cloud Engines Pogoplug 2 DIY Nas
Posted February 18th, 2010 by admin No Comments »
By Tony Smith (via reghardware.co.uk)
Review Pogoplug – now in its second incarnation – is the kind of gadgets ‘real’ geeks hate. It’s brightly coloured – an awful white and pink combo; not a plus point – it’s consumer friendly and, when all is said and done, it’s just a network adaptor for hard drives.
Why work a weeny, girly gadget when you can maintain an enormous, manly Nas box?
Cloud Engines’ Pogoplug: not macho
One reason: you don’t want a noise monster blowing hard in the corner of your room. Another is the way Pogoplug makes accessing and sharing connected drives over the internet so easy.
And – geeks, please note – it runs Linux and has already spawned a community of hackers who’ve installed their own distro and apps on top. Read the rest of this entry »
