Why do you need a wireless portable hard drive

Portable hard drives - it's convenient. Present in today's mobile number storage device 8, 16, 32 and even 64 gigabytes can be enough to store a certain number of the most relevant data, however, in the case of video these volumes are no longer enough. How many movies in high quality fit on your tablet memory card? The problem is also in the process of translation of the recorded movies on a portable drive on the tablet screen.

The guys from Seagate came to the question is simple. How do we get access to the desired content on mobile devices? Of course, through the internet, and more specifically, through Wi-Fi (at least personally, we have not seen people who would watch HD movies over 3G). So, we need to make a hard drive with Wi-Fi. So there was a GoFlex Satellite, portable hard drive capacity 500 GB, while acting as an access point Wi-Fi. One such disk came to us in hands.

Composition

When opening the boxes is detected within a couple of booklets, one of which is the user manual.

It should be noted that this guide takes a few lines of text. Apparently, the work with the accessory will be easy. Apart from packaging booklets extracted the plastic container by a hard disk and "bonus." Postpone drive on later and look at these bonuses.

Since the portable drive, you probably should provide its use in a variety of conditions, including at the exits. For this purpose, the kit includes a car zaryazhalka with a standard USB port.

The adapter has two removable plugs of different standards and the same USB port.

the disc itself Connecting to an adapter or car charger is carried out with the appropriate cable.

Purpose of the last cable can puzzle until you find the plug in the drive housing, behind which a standard SATA interface for wired connection to a computer store with the help of the loop, or through the above-mentioned cable.

By the way, the device supports USB 3.0, so the write speed and read complaints cause should not.

Appearance

Let's move on to the design of the disc. He is beautiful. The top panel is made of glossy black plastic and looks quite nice.

The only drawback of such a surface is traditionally fingerprints. Located on the lid 2 and the logo of the manufacturer of the indicator, is responsible for displaying the state of charge and a network.

The side panels are decorated in gray. Located on opposite sides of the device and the power button connector for charging cable.

One of the sides of the different black color. This is precisely the plug. Separately want to say about the SATA-USB cable. On the adapter there are additional LEDs, and in the darkness connected to the computer device looks just cosmically.

If we talk about the weight of the disc, it is only 267 grams and carry it with you is not hard.

Functional

We now turn to the key chip portable drive, ie work as a wireless Wi-Fi file storage. Here everything is very simple. When the default device creates an open Wi-Fi network to which you can connect to anything, be it a smartphone, tablet, laptop or any computer with the presence of Wi-Fi adapter. After connecting to the network, open a browser and enter the address of any brand, even just yedinichku in the address bar. As a result, you will transfer to the interface of a portable disk.

There is still easier. On the left are the tabs storage division by content type. In fact, all of this convention and are intended only for the more aesthetic of stored information by category.

Most likely you do not want that anyone can connect to your drive and watch / download / fill to / from his data, we recommend that at the very beginning of work go into the settings and set a password for the wireless network. After that, life becomes calmer. You can also change the default language to English is more familiar home.

Especially for owners of mobile devices on Android and iOS developers provided a free application that allows to work with the repository, without having to resort to the browser. You can download them in their respective app stores.

• GoFlex Media for iOS (App Store)
• GoFlex Media for Android (Google Play Store)

Basically, the difference between the work of the disk through the browser and through the app virtually none. When you select the appropriate category of content, and press the button "Options", you can upload it to the local store of the mobile device or computer. When viewing the same category with the capabilities of your computer and download the file to a portable drive.

When connected via a ribbon cable is defined as a normal disk removable media. The original folder structure can be altered to your liking.

playback

It is understood that this drive is actually a conventional store, so to play different file formats have to take care of the appropriate software on your mobile device.

Complaints to the speed of the device in wireless mode, we did not have, so if you do not hide from the disk of the three thick concrete walls, the problems should not arise.

Total

The product we liked. When you purchase this disc sharply and decisively disappear questions iPad with a different amount of memory configuration selection. With such a heavy thing all the media no longer have to try to push the plate. Options for a wireless carrier, you can come up with a lot. Take for example a joint outdoor recreation, when the machine is next to and have the opportunity to recharge. By the way, the assurances of the developer to the same drive can simultaneously connect up to 8 devices. At the same time comfortable to watch HD videos will be 3 devices simultaneously.