Unfortunately, not what you expect from a Net media sharing solution ...

When I discovered the GoFlex system I was enthusiastic at first, the various possibilities that are offered here by the various adapters, facilitated me the purchase decision, and an eSATA adapter I wanted through the purchase of Net Media adapter without. Unfortunately, the thing a few hooks :-(

Benefits:
* Anyone in the household can use his computer / console (PS3 and Xbox 360) / iPhone / iPod / Android on the hard disk (s) to access.
* The media server works well with PS3, PSP etc.
* The whole is also on the Internet
* The hard drives are quickly interchangeable
* Older hard drives or other manufacturers can be connected via USB to the adapter
* With GoFlex drives via 4 LEDs of the occupied space on the HD displays
* Installation is straightforward and fast
* You can share individual directories or drives via the Internet to friends
Disadvantages:
* To install mandatory Internet must be present
* It can be made without an internet connection any settings because this is done completely via the Pogoplug Web interface
* The Pogoplug server is constantly connected to the adapter, which he there so everything drives and indexed is not readily discernible.
* Following large data transfers, the data "processed", it can sometimes take several hours and affects the performance of the drives through to unusable during processing
* A documentation is supplied in any way and is also available online only for the adapter, but not for the Pogoplug interface, here it is, guess what that setting might mean well.
You briefly, to take them * Removes a hard disk, for example, once with a friend, the media server settings, shares, and shares must completely reconfigure it again, here no more be anscheind stored by the adapter.
* In addition to the shares that are intended for friends, there is no assignment of rights, in other words there is no way to create family members own private folder, anyone can always access it on the network.
* If you use the Pogoplug drive decreases the data transmission in the basement, with only the (online adjustable) Windows file sharing, you can also on the local network work pretty fast with the / the hard drive (s).
* The copy directly between the connected hard drives seems to work only quite cumbersome and slow via the web interface in reasonably tolerable timeframe

The point of the assignment of rights is probably by far the most serious, here I was hoping for more than about nothing, the promised solution to the agnzen household is then not.
The few information Pogoplugoberfläche irritate but very, so the adapter has probably the possibility via SSH to access it, the details are given one seeks in vain.

My conclusion: Seagate will not have kept the free information on the product rather sparse, as far as I know some of Fritz boxes from home can handle as much better with connected USB drives. This was probably unfortunately a bad buy, should not soon be firmware updates that even extremely expand the range of functions and the setting options there.