Wireless hard drive

[naveen.nag]

Hi

I am browsing for wireless hard drive. Something which I can pair with my ipad to browse thru photos and watch videos. Came across one from seagate but had very poor reviews. I am looking for something compact and portable. Anyone here got any experience or opinion about a good wifi drive? Please share your thoughts.

Thanks
Naveen

 

[rssmrry]

I have the Seagate wireless plus, I quite like it, it's got a nice long battery life and does what it says on the tin. I'm using mine on android so I can't comment on how the app is on iOS. Took me a while to realise but it does have Wi-Fi pass through so you can still connect to your own Wi-Fi while having access to the hard drive. Isn't too big, quite handy though I would have preferred an SSD rather than a mechanical drive purely because it's designed to be moved about. I'd happily have taken a smaller capacity if it was available as an SSD.

 

[naveen.nag]

Thanks Ross. In fact i have been reading on the web and it looks like Maxell Airstash is pretty good. Its small, it makes use of the SD cards, and it connects to the pc like a usb drive and also has good battery life as well. I am tempted to go for it as it i read some good reviews about it.

 

[Hugh Jarse]

I have also been looking into these devices.

I have a 500Mb portable USB (Seagate) and I like the idea of the Seagate Plus.

Not sure about the Maxell stash concept.

I used to be an early adopter on gadgets and gizmos but I am hanging on to see where this iteration of mobile storage goes.

The underlying security issue withe the Seagate where even setting WPK password is pointless if the Telnet default password is not changed) is a deal breaker for me. Telnet should be a set up option not a deep Linux search.

So will wait until the other players join the market.

Should bring the price down too and perhaps a bit of "convergence" technology development (in car connectivity for music etc).

S