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The main thing that worries me about this product is the Pogoplug subscription service because itвЂ™s not disclosed what the price will be after the initial free year of service expires. That said, there are a few kinks to work out in the web interface and local drive interface that will help make the product more reliable. The Seagate FreeAgent DockStar Network Adapter is certainly easy to setup and use. You can also publish to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and an RSS feed. If you add new files to a shared folder, anyone that youвЂ™ve granted access to, will receive an email telling them that there is new content in that folder. They donвЂ™t even have to sign up for a Pogoplug account. They will receive an email with a link that allows them access. Simply click on a file, folder, or album, and then enter the email address(es) of whomever you want to share with. You have to reboot the machine before the app will mount the drives again. If you eject the drives and then try to re-run the app to remount the drives, nothing happens. Although the local mounting app seemed to worked fine, I did notice one problem with it. To put new files on the connected drives, you can either upload them through the Pogoplug web interface, or you can download a small application that allows you to mount the drives as local drives on your computer. You have to download those files to view them.

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Unfortunately, the interface wonвЂ™t display TXT files or PDF files. The transcode process seemed a little glitchy as it slowed down the access and did not display a status to let you know what it was doing.

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A background process will transcode the videos so that you can watch the whole movie in your browser. Clicking on a video file will show a short preview of the movie in thumbnail mode. Music files can also be played directly through the web interface. Photos can be viewed by clicking on their thumbnail. When you do this, youвЂ™ll see all those types of files on one screen regardless to where the actual files are stored on the attached devices. You can also filter the view by Movies, Music and Photos. Once youвЂ™ve activated the adapter, youвЂ™ll see all the attached drives on your Pogoplug page.ДЇiles on those drives can be viewed as thumbnails or lists. However, thereвЂ™s no mention on the Pogoplug site or SeagateвЂ™s site about how much the service will cost you after the 1 year is up. With the DockStar, you use the same service, but you only get it free for 1 year. When you buy a Pogoplug, you receive their web based access service for free. It has three USB ports, unlike the DockStar which has 4 including the dock for a FreeAgent Go drive. Pogoplug makes and sells their own USB network adapter for $129. The FreeAgent DockStar uses a service from Pogoplug to activate the adapter and access your files. The whole setup takes less than 5 minutes. Just connect the included AC adapter, connect the supplied Ethernet cable to the dock and to a free port on your router, plug in a FreeAgent Go drive or other USB storage device into one of the open USB ports and activate the adapter on the web.

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Drives formatted with NTFS, FAT32, Mac OS Extended Journaled and non-Journaled (HFS+), and EXT-2/EXT-3 are fully supported. ThereвЂ™s also an Ethernet jack and the power connector located on the rear of the adapter. There is one USB port on the right side of the dock andвЂ¦

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The DockStar includes 3 additional full sized USB ports that you can use to plug-in USB flash drives, and other external drives. DonвЂ™t have a FreeAgent Go drive and donвЂ™t feel like buying one? No problem.