Pogoplug Office Secure Private Cloud Solution with 5 User Licenses (POGO-V4-A4-01)

To lower the score of the product for receiving it used would not be fair to the product review itself. That is most likely Amazon's error. The device still works even though it arrived with debris and partially wrapped packaging. I have used Pogoplug in the past and I loved it. When I saw that you can customize things like the logo, domain name, and email format of the items you share from the Pogoplug using the Pogoplug Office device I knew we had to use it in our office. It works great like any other Pogoplug device. I was able to hook up a SSD to the SATA slot on the device and it works beautifully. For added backup security we can choose to not only back up to the drive, but backup the drive to the Pogoplug Cloud. This is an incredible and affordable office solution.

While CloudEngines was in business, all of the Pogoplug devices worked amazingly well... unfortunately, now I am left with a handful of non-functional devices that actually served useful purposes originally. While two years ago I would have recommended this product without reservation, be sure not to purchase one now... I do not believe you will be able to activate it... and if you do, you will end up able to access your account, but your device will show that you have no drives attached even if you do.Nowadays, look to the application NextCloud running on a small home server or a Raspberry Pi-alike to provide similar services... at least it will work when configured!

I'm writing this review for those of you looking for a modern (2017) solution to being able to hookup USB HDDs to your network. I have not found this information clearly explained elsewhere after much searching, and decided to experiment and report through these reviews.IF you are looking for a device in 2017 to be able to connect your existing external USB HDDs directly to your network, the Cirago, Vantec, PogoPlug, US Robotics, and Addonics devices are all very old technology now, and some never worked well in the first place.THE ANSWER; I am using successfully (in 2017) is the HooToo Travelmate Nano HT-TM02 device, which is very inexpensive and reliable. There are other new devices similar to this one that you could also try, so I'm not endorsing anyone, just saying what I've found that works.Some Warning: The Travelmate does lots of things besides being able to simply connect USB HDDs to your network, so it is easy to get confused about which features to ignore if that's all you want to do. You will need to be able to setup the device per their instructions, and be a little familiar with network terminology, but it wasn't tricky otherwise. I then used Windows 10 to map the network drive to a drive letter, and I'm accessing the same files on the HDD just as when the drive was connected directly via USB.I think you can also also set it up to access your USB HDD over WiFi (which none of those older devices could do), but I haven't tried that yet.Other options for using your USB HDD on your network:--I used PogoPlug for several years, but that company decided to abandon its users a couple of years ago. You can't even log into your own local HDDs using a Pogoplug device unless their identification server is online. Their server started going offline for days at a time, so I abandoned that solution. I wasn't even using their cloud service, so requiring online login to access your own local HDDs was stupid unless the ID service stayed online, which it didn't.--I also have a number of NAS boxes that use internal (bare) hard drives, but those boxes are expensive and don't let you use existing USB HDDs. Some have external USB ports, but I've found that mine just don't like to play nice or play well with external USB drives. FYI: NAS devices also let you do RAID protection, where USB HDDs with HooToo can't do that.--Most newer routers also have USB 3.0 ports to add HDDs to access them over your network, but most of their documentation has little or no information about external USB HDD connections, so experimenting is cost prohibitive.--I have not tried connecting multiple drives via a USB hub to the HooToo yet. Be aware that some devices don't work with USB hubs, and won't allow more than a single HDD to be connected. The HooToo device is cheap enough to get one per HDD though.

It's ok so far. I haven't had any real issue with it. It does get really hot when you use all of the USB ports. Other than making it to where it work with all of my storage media this product is pretty awesome. I like the music player, the photo viewer, and movie viewer. The file explorer is pretty easy to figure out too. Over all I like this device for the price I bought it at.

This has worked well, and was not to bad to set up.I have seen the pogo plug's drop in price and I can't figure out why, as they solvethe problem of having a cloud storage solution.This one has a 5 user license, so that allows you to create other accounts for your guests, or family members.I did have to use the customer service as once, the device no longer allowed me to connect remotely.Customer service was fast, and they did solve my problems.The solution was that I needed to run a check disk on the attached hard drive, to do that, you have to connect the drive to your computer and run it, then re-attach it to the pogo plug. Not hard to do, and it solves the problem of not being able to log into the device. That was the only issue I have had with the pogo plug.I want to also mention that the transfer rate is not bad, compared to other services that will take you days to do a transfer.This device seems to run at about half speed of a normal transfer.In case you have never used any "cloud services", if you had a 4 gig file, it may take you a day or 2 on some services, but this took about 10 minutes, which is about half of my bandwidth.One final note, this device supported my usb 3.0 hard drive.

Works well. I use it to serve a variety of files for other family members to view. I never need to worry about running out of space or how much it will cost. I can use it for local backup and recovery with no speed problems like internet backup services experience.