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eBay with Adorama has the Pogoplug Pogoplug POGO-P21 Media Sharing Device (Black or Pink) for $17 with free shipping. Features cloud/mobile printing and includes ethernet cable. Claims setup takes less than 60 seconds.
$17
I've heard the pink has more RAM. I think this only matters if you intend to hack it into a general purpose Linux server/router. I got the black one, unhacked. It's very slow and I often have to kill the client software because it's starts monopolizing the CPU. I've pretty much given up on it at this point. Still, it might be useful as a file sharing portal instead of dropbox or yousendit. Hacking it can make for a nice low power storage or web server.
Update: This got me thinking about sparkleshare. It seems this project is now useful. I was able to get Arch Linux running on my pogo. Installed git and got sparkleshare running using their dazzle script. I was then able to get a sparkeshare client on two windows machines and they seem to be syncing correctly. Seems a lot more useful now and reasonably fast. it's like a self-hosted dropbox. The only caveat is that you need to open a port on your router to allow SSH. Use of an obscure higher port other than 22 is probably a good idea to avoid automated bots.
http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/pogoplug-v2-pinkgray
sparkleshare.org
BTW, mine is the black pogoplug but grey/pink instructions above worked (Model POGO-E02)
More hints: Use these commands to get 'git' installed
pacman -Sy
pacman -S git
Thanks for the link. I have the Pink version.
FYI - still available at $17 on 12/29/2012. Bought one thanks to techsupport.
why not get a Raspberry Pi for $35 instead ? it can be a HTPC and file server at the same time.