![]() ![]() Another major difference between the DockStar and the Pogoplug is that the DockStar has a total of four USB 2.0 ports versus the Pogoplug's single USB 2.0 port. ![]() While the Pogoplug is essentially a small white cube, the DockStar is a bit more svelte (3.39x3.351.50), with a cradle on top designed to work exclusively with Seagate's line of FreeAgent Go portable hard drives-in fact, the DockStar looks a lot like the Seagate FreeAgent Go Dock. The most obvious difference between the Pogoplug and the DockStar is their appearance. Instead of reinventing the wheel, however, Seagate chose to license the Pogoplug technology from CloudEngines and integrate it-with a few differences-into the DockStar. Now a big name in the storage business, Seagate, has jumped onto this bandwagon and released its own USB drive-based NAS device, the Seagate FreeAgent DockStar. We've even looked at a couple of them: the Addonics NAS Adapter ($49) and CloudEngines' Pogoplug ($99). DockStar makes your stuff available to you anytime, anywhere. And once installed, you can attach your FreeAgent Go or any other external USB storage devices to it to make them available over your network in your home, and even outside your home. These NAS devices are typically inexpensive and super-easy to setup and use. DockStar is by far the easiest to install and set up network device you will ever find. There is even a relatively new category of NAS devices that don't have any internal drives at all, and instead use USB-attached drives as their storage source. ![]() Network-attached storage (NAS) devices come in all shapes and sizes some even come without hard drives-with the intention that the users will add the drives themselves. ![]()
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