A Wireless Hard Drive
Seagate GoFlex Satellite 500GB USB 3.0 Portable Rechargable Wireless Hard Drive - Black
Manufacturer's Description
The GoFlex Satellite device goes wherever your iPad or Android tablet goes and lets you wirelessly access all your movies, photos, music and documents. No more worrying about running out of space on your mobile device. Everyone in the family can wirelessly access the hundreds of movies you load on the GoFlex Satellite device. Stream to almost any device that has Wi-Fi connectivity and a web browser - including laptops, most smartphones and tablets. The GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless storage device is part of the Seagate GoFlex Storage System. This innovative system makes it incredibly easy to upgrade or change the interface on your GoFlex Satellite device, so you can always get optimal transfer speeds when loading and syncing your media. Simply plug the GoFlex Satellite device into your PC or Mac computer to quickly sync your media library.
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OPINION:
Only wish it was solid state.
This is actually a pretty great device,
To get the best out of this device, you probably need to understand how it works, and what the limitations are. Basically, it's a wifi web server with local storage. Getting the files (movies, pictures, music) onto the device is no more difficult than any removable USB drive: you just connect, drag and drop. Once you're done, you disconnect, press the power button and connect to the wifi access point.
The software you install onto the device for playback isn't great - it's basically an AIR version of the web interface, and it launches your video player. The software's a bit clunky and unattractive, and Seagate could do with looking at how other software (like Air Video) is designed. But it does work, and it works across multiple platforms too, thanks to its inbuilt web browser - you can use this with iPad, Android tablet, PlayBook, laptop, or whatever you like. And three devices can connect at once.
The streaming quality is perfect, as long as the format's supported on your device, or you have a player installed to handle your files (for example, AVI/divx files aren't natively supported on most tablets without add-on software). This is easily rectified, but could easily catch buyers out. You can either use software like Handbrake or the Roxio convertor software on your desktop machine to convert your video before transferring, or else install a suitable player on your tablet - such as OPlayer on iPad, or MX Video Player on Android.
Oh, one last thing to remember - due to the way the wifi connection works, you're either connected to the device or you're connected to your Internet connection - you can't be connected to both at the same time. For me, this isn't a major issue as it's pretty much a travel device, but it's best to be aware of this.
http://tinyurl.com/wireless-hard-drive
To get the best out of this device, you probably need to understand how it works, and what the limitations are. Basically, it's a wifi web server with local storage. Getting the files (movies, pictures, music) onto the device is no more difficult than any removable USB drive: you just connect, drag and drop. Once you're done, you disconnect, press the power button and connect to the wifi access point.
The software you install onto the device for playback isn't great - it's basically an AIR version of the web interface, and it launches your video player. The software's a bit clunky and unattractive, and Seagate could do with looking at how other software (like Air Video) is designed. But it does work, and it works across multiple platforms too, thanks to its inbuilt web browser - you can use this with iPad, Android tablet, PlayBook, laptop, or whatever you like. And three devices can connect at once.
The streaming quality is perfect, as long as the format's supported on your device, or you have a player installed to handle your files (for example, AVI/divx files aren't natively supported on most tablets without add-on software). This is easily rectified, but could easily catch buyers out. You can either use software like Handbrake or the Roxio convertor software on your desktop machine to convert your video before transferring, or else install a suitable player on your tablet - such as OPlayer on iPad, or MX Video Player on Android.
Oh, one last thing to remember - due to the way the wifi connection works, you're either connected to the device or you're connected to your Internet connection - you can't be connected to both at the same time. For me, this isn't a major issue as it's pretty much a travel device, but it's best to be aware of this.
http://tinyurl.com/wireless-hard-drive
