Pogoplug or Goflex Home?

[oconn1st]

Hey,

I am buying a new device and would like some suggestions. I am torn between getting a pogoplug v4 (or maybe v2) or a goflex home. I want something to do media streaming to my pc's and google tv. I am leaning towards the goflex because it comes with a 2TB HDD and I am running out of space on my existing drives; however if I went with the pogoplug I could utilize those existing drives and get a new one.

HELP!

[xenoxaos]

Well, the goflex home also has a usb port for expansion...the v2 has a bit more memory, but only usb and no sata...the v4 is 400 mhz slower...i would tend to lean towards the goflex....then to the v2...

[winestock]

I am using a Pogoplug Series 4 as a media streamer. I have a 2 bay raid box, JBOD mode, installed with (2) 4TB hard drives hooked to the PPv4. I am using it as a server for DVD movies to my Mac computers using AFP for XBMC. The PPv4 is working very well. I picked up one at Best Buy for $60. I am planning one picking up another to use as a web server. I think the USB 3.0 port on the PPv4 is a definate plus.

[moonman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('winestock', 'I') am using a Pogoplug Series 4 as a media streamer. I have a 2 bay raid box, JBOD mode, installed with (2) 4TB hard drives hooked to the PPv4. I am using it as a server for DVD movies to my Mac computers using AFP for XBMC. The PPv4 is working very well. I picked up one at Best Buy for $60. I am planning one picking up another to use as a web server. I think the USB 3.0 port on the PPv4 is a definate plus.

[WarheadsSE]

I will have to test writing to the usb3.0, with samba and the newer kernel with bfq.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('winestock', 'I') am using a Pogoplug Series 4 as a media streamer. I have a 2 bay raid box, JBOD mode, installed with (2) 4TB hard drives hooked to the PPv4. I am using it as a server for DVD movies to my Mac computers using AFP for XBMC. The PPv4 is working very well. I picked up one at Best Buy for $60. I am planning one picking up another to use as a web server. I think the USB 3.0 port on the PPv4 is a definate plus.

[WarheadsSE]

PPV4 with linux-kirkwood, to a USB3 WD 3TB MyBook (probably not high speed disk), I get a sustained ~ 22MB/s write over samba, which we know is a bit of a CPU hog.

[winestock]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', 'P')PV4 with linux-kirkwood, to a USB3 WD 3TB MyBook (probably not high speed disk), I get a sustained ~ 22MB/s write over samba, which we know is a bit of a CPU hog.

[moonman]

So were you using samba or hdparm -t/dd because hdparm -t can't be used over samba and ofcourse direct on-device speeds will be much better because there's no CPU overhead imposed by samba. With my GoFlex Home I get about 107MB/s read from a sata drive (it's probably not true because it does drive cache to interface rather than drive to interface) which is irrelevant since I almost never use the drive directly, only through samba. Also hdparm is filesystem independent, so there won't be any f/s overhead.

Don't get me wrong here, that would be great if PPv4 would be this quick, but I just can't see a slower device outperform a faster one where interface or drive speed are not the limiting factor.

[winestock]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', 'S')o were you using samba or hdparm -t/dd because hdparm -t can't be used over samba and ofcourse direct on-device speeds will be much better because there's no CPU overhead imposed by samba. With my GoFlex Home I get about 107MB/s read from a sata drive (it's probably not true because it does drive cache to interface rather than drive to interface) which is irrelevant since I almost never use the drive directly, only through samba. Also hdparm is filesystem independent, so there won't be any f/s overhead.