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The Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive is aimed a bit more at network-based VPN and file sharing.

As such, it’s not such a great internal server although I found that it had fewer hangs and failures than the Iomega drive. Its designed to allow you to access things through almost any firewall. Pogoplug has some open source variants that enable UPNP, but this drive does not support those updates – yet. You can connect via an SMB share, but this makes it a less than capable home media streamer.

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UPDATE – A setting that I was not shown will enable DLNA. In all, it’s an interesting and very usable device.įirst, the Cloudstor is not UPNP compatible, which makes it almost invisible to most home media players. The drive has a BitTorrent client built-in and supports Time Machine backups as well as an “active directory” system that will synchronize with any folder on any PC, allowing you to create a cloud-based backup of your data. The drive works amazingly well when you need to upload and share certain pieces of data in very specific contexts and is excellent for folks who are always on the go and want a ready store of information to be available from their home office. I’m impressed that Buffalo simply ignored the traditional route of buying or white labeling an unknown sharing system and went with an established player in the cloud market. Obviously you have to have an acceptable upstream network connection to make it worth your time, but provided that is the case this solution is quite elegant. It is a seamless, quiet solution to media streaming while on the go and you can also open up shares for others to grab your video. The Pogoplug interface allows you to view videos and listen to your music over the Internet from any browser or specialized mobile app. This is an amazingly useful feature and because it is a public share you can pull it at any time. This image, for example, is stored on my local network and I’ve shared it publicly with you all using the Pogoplug interface.

Pogoplug, as you’ll recall, is a dead simple file sharing box that lets you connect any external drive and share the content immediately, either with a secure login or with the world.

#APOLLO CLOUD 2 DUO ACCESS HARD DRIVE INSTALL#

With this hard drive, Buffalo has eschewed homegrown technology completely and has embedded a full Pogoplug install inside the case. I’ve put them both together as their feature sets are similar in process but intrinsically different in performance. They are, for the most part, plug and play except for a quick port change for the Iomega drive. The two devices, the Buffalo CloudStor and the Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive, come in multiple sizes and sit on your network. This dream, of late, has been deferred by the rise of cloud services like SugarSync and Dropbox but two hard drive manufacturers, Buffalo and Iomega, have come out with compelling devices that seem to finally allow home and home office users to get the benefits of cloud hosting with the safety of complete control over your data. It has long been a dream of mine to connect a hard drive at home to the Internet.

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