Wow, this looks like a very simple way to add NAS (Network Attached Storage) to a home system. I have asked the maker how many USB devices can be attached, waiting for the answer. . .
(update, 1/9/09) And today the JKOntheRun.com blog had the answer on a video interview, “you can daisy chain as many USB devices as you want”.
Credit to Rafe Needleman from CNET while at the CES 2009 show in Las Vegas.
//Jon
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Home CNET CES 2009 January 7, 2009 9:00 PM PST Pogoplug puts any hard drive on the Internet Posted by Rafe Needleman
Here’s a cool little product that I can’t wait to try out: The Pogoplug. It’s a simple and relatively cheap box that plugs into an external hard drive (or flash drive) via USB, and also into you home’s Internet connection. Then it puts the hard drive on the Web as well as on your local network. Any computer in your home can access it as a shared drive, and people outside can also connect to it over the Web. It sounds like a very quick and simple way to put a whole bunch of files online for friends to see.
Pogoplug connects your USB drives to the Internet.Now, it’s no great feat for a geek to wire up a PC or a network-attached storage drive for Internet access. What the Pogoplug does is not utterly unique. The company is going for ease of use”
(Via CNET.)