in terms of usability and file transfer speed for backup and video streaming, can this replace the much more expensive Synology NAS boxes?
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It's a good little machine. It can stream well using its proprietary software. It's super user friendly. Other than that I have not played to jailbreak it. It won't replace a nas box but for 19$ it's not bad.
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i think yes it can replace the synology NAS boxes, if you customizing what you want. You can googling what you want
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I'm sorry that I'm not more knowledgeable about the Pogo to say whether it might accommodate the use you're suggesting. My gut feeling is "no," not without some changes. Our experience thus far with Pogoplug is that the unit seems to work but there are bugs that we haven't worked out yet. The browser interface is great. It definitely picks up new devices well. But in our efforts to upload whole external drives to the Pogo cloud, we've often had folders copied without their contents, etc. So our vote is out at this point. Can't beat the price for data storage though - they're cornering the market on cloud storage for sure. I'm sorry that I'm not more knowledgeable about the Pogo to say whether it might accommodate the use you're suggesting. My gut feeling is "no," not without some changes. Our experience thus far with Pogoplug is that the unit seems to work but there are bugs that we haven't worked out yet. The browser interface is great. It definitely picks up new devices well. But in our efforts to upload whole external drives to the Pogo cloud, we've often had folders copied without their contents, etc. So our vote is out at this point. Can't beat the price for data storage though - they're... » Read More I'm sorry that I'm not more knowledgeable about the Pogo to say whether it might accommodate the use you're suggesting. My gut feeling is "no," not without some changes. Our experience thus far with Pogoplug is that the unit seems to work but there are bugs that we haven't worked out yet. The browser interface is great. It definitely picks up new devices well. But in our efforts to upload whole external drives to the Pogo cloud, we've often had folders copied without their contents, etc. So our vote is out at this point. Can't beat the price for data storage though - they're cornering the market on cloud storage for sure. « Show Less
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Small Net Builder also has a NAS Ranker that shows a larger picture of comparison others noted with benchmarks: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/31909-synology-ds412-diskstation-reviewed. Synology DS412+ is ranked 6th overall, and is the best for its seemingly high price point. Compared to others this is the top performer in the mid price range for 4 bays. WD EX4 is ranked dead last of the 4 bays tied with a few others at 52nd. WD is the cheapest and slowest. So the question you want is do you want performance (and need to pay for it) or do you just want something that will hold your HDs and serve. Small Net Builder also has a NAS Ranker that shows a larger picture of comparison others noted with benchmarks: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/31909-synology-ds412-diskstation-reviewed. Synology DS412+ is ranked 6th overall, and is the best for its seemingly high price point. Compared to others this is the top performer in the mid price range for 4 bays. WD EX4 is ranked dead last of the 4 bays tied with a few others at 52nd. WD is the cheapest and slowest. So the question you want is do you want performance (and need to pay for it) or do you just want something... » Read More Small Net Builder also has a NAS Ranker that shows a larger picture of comparison others noted with benchmarks: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/31909-synology-ds412-diskstation-reviewed. Synology DS412+ is ranked 6th overall, and is the best for its seemingly high price point. Compared to others this is the top performer in the mid price range for 4 bays. WD EX4 is ranked dead last of the 4 bays tied with a few others at 52nd. WD is the cheapest and slowest. So the question you want is do you want performance (and need to pay for it) or do you just want something that will hold your HDs and serve. « Show Less
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Yes you can. It is supposedly specifically designed for the rigors of NAS storage though, in that it is designed to be run continuously. It is probably not necessary to pay the premium for this drive to use in HTPC setup. If the price is not really a concern, I would go with a faster drive, such as the WD Black range or the WD Velociraptor.
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Price?? This is cheap compared to my Synology NAS that I use for shared storage. This particular device is great for network storage or as a backup device for a 1:many scenario. It is not difficult to setup, just read the documentation. I have had mine running now for 2 years without a hiccup. If you have problems call tech support up. The tricky part is understand one has to claim a volume before one can use it.
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Yes. You have to setup web-DAV and some other things, and then it work like a dream. There are plenty of how to's on the internet and synology.com.
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I have 2 units In 2 locations. One is used with a WD Mycloud 6tb drive. The other with a 4tb Seagate cloud drive. I copy to them and back them up us a NAS. I stream from them using the built in DLNA server. They work great for me.
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None yet. I ended up getting a DS1513+ just b/c of that and use there CloudStation Sync. It works just like google drive, drop box, and Sky Drive. I believe this syncs faster out side of the network.
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I have the UN50HU6950 and Plex is an available download. I have not used it yet, so I cannot comment on performance.
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Yeah, On their cloud... The design is pretty bad in my opinion, not intuitive and slow. I accidentally purchased one of these after being mislead by the retail packaging. I thought it was compatible as a SMB device, but wasn't. Best get a router that has a USB plug for your home server. You can even set up an FTP for remote access if you choose. There are better NAS solutions than PogoPlug.
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See my review for my opinion on it in more detail. But yes this is it. I'm extremely pleased with mine, which I use for streaming movies all over the house simultaneously to multiple devices. It plays HD movies over wifi without any problems what so ever. 13.8gb huge movie files, no problem, it'll stream them to multiple devices without skipping a beat. 1080p, DTS sound. Etc. Yes, this is it. I had no idea it was discontinued. It was my first NAS and I had no trouble downloading DSM OS, the pat file, and the synology assistant. It was easy.
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I use the Android app P2PIPC that is recommended and it works okay. It's not the most polished App but it does get the job done, Left and Right work just fine, but Up and Down are reversed. As mentioned before Synology doesn't support it natively but I was able to manually program mine using MPEG as the video and had to manually enter the path /http://192.168.1.6:554/videostream.cgi. But it works just fine.
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I am using USB 3 and performance is reasonable. Using Windows 8.1 Storage Spaces with full parity, I am getting ~20-40 MB/sec throughput on writes. I would recommend it for archive and backups. Not sure about the throughput yet for something like an active media server.
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Performance is more than adequate for me - main use is local backup of RAID drives (attached to 2 Apple iMacs) and iPad/iPhone in-house access to any of that data (Drobo is attached to Apple APE-AC). My primary objective was easy admin: adding & changing shares & permissions, mix & match various SATA drives types and sizes, data redundancy w/o true RAID, swap & add of HDs without any admin. my short list included Synology, but made the decision just on ease of admin. I am aware of some horror stories concerning data loss with Drobo, but I keep it on a UPS and it's just a backup for me.
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I get ~30-40 MB/s via iSCSI (NAS' CPU is maxed...) with all other services disabled, can't comment on SMB performance since I dont use it. These are definitely not the fastest units. (for anyone else reading this, that is megaBYTES per second, not megaBITS)
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The CPU is not powerful enough. You might be able to do one SD stream. I use a NUC as my Plex server and the Synology as my file server.
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I'm using it in a server raid 1 for data backup. I would say yes on NAS configuration. Because of the slower speed I would not use it as a drive setup to run programs from. Just for data.
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I do exactly this with a Synology NAS. There are a few caveats with the library but I can watch or listen to my library on 2 Apple TVs and audio with some Airport Expresses. Should work the same with this.