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Adding a SATA SSD to a PogoPlug Pro

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Adding a SSD to a what? 10 years ago, I bought a PogoPlug Pro on a daily offers website. This was a small ARM device running some Linux flavour on an old 2.6 (I think) kernel. The device was equiped with some proprietary software from a company called Cloud Engines . The idea was to connect this device to your local network, attach an external hard drive using one of the four USB ports and tada your hard drive is now accessible from anywhere on the Internet. This service was totally free of charge. Free as in; you buy the device (price was around €30) plug it in and that was it. It was only later that Cloud Enines started to offer real cloud storage, hosted by themselves and started charging for that service. With other cloud providers like dropbox , google's drive , microsoft's on drive and many others, Cloud Engines was struggling to stay afloat. Somewhere in 2017, the service along with the company finally shutdown , leaving a bunch of users with obsolete d