Seagate Debuts Battery-Powered Wi-Fi External HDD

[exfileme]

Here's a good way to really expand the capacity of your wireless device

Seagate Debuts Battery-Powered Wi-Fi External HDD : Read more

 

[mavroxur]

Handy, unless you want to access your data while accessing a WiFi network. You can't simultaneously associate with multiple WLANs.

 

[itrendslave]

Seems like a great idea. We'll see how it plays out.

Also, it could help to state the drive capacity in the article.

 

[memadmax]

This could be useful more at home, on regular power. I wonder if the hardware is robust enough to do it.

 

[eddieroolz]

Sure nice idea, but wireless is inherently riskier than wired. There's also the issue of transfer rates.

 

[slyphnier]

this article missed the capacity size "With 500GB and Wi-Fi access over 802.11 b/g/n and a rechargeable battery, this latest member of the GoFlex® family provides the ability to carry an entire library of video, music, pictures and documents with you."

 

[macewrox]

It's like a shared drive that's actually shared. I wonder if you can just leave it plugged in forever at home and use it for all your home computers.

 

[nebun]

doesn't this make it easier to steal your info??? bad idea

 

[rosen380]

"doesn't this make it easier to steal your info??? bad idea" -- Since it is essentially a wireless network, isn't your data about as secure on it as any data accessible if someone got into your home wifi network?

"Sure nice idea, but wireless is inherently riskier than wired. There's also the issue of transfer rates." -- If I can stream movies on my wireless network from the internet, I imagine I can stream movies from this just the same?

 

[dark_lord69]

"plans to offer it for $199.99 this July"
At first I was thinking YES! finally something cheaper than those ripoff network storage devices... nope... I could pay the same amount and get one that connects via a cable (which would be faster)

 

[rosen380]

No, you are paying the same amount for more storage and the trade-off is a battery and wifi connectivity. Unless you are getting a USB 3.0 drive and have USB 3.0 ports, plugged in, this is bound to be about as fast as anything else you'll get.

 

[DaddyW123]

This is the kind of idea I wish I had thought up first.

 

[rosen380]

I might be *driving* from NY to Disney in August-- would be really sweet to have this with my iPad to entertain the will-be-three-year-old.

Granted, I can also re-encode a bunch of her movies and get a boat load of low-end quality movies right in the iPad [she doesn't care ]. That may be alittle more work on my end, but also $200 cheaper

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]rosen380[/nom]"doesn't this make it easier to steal your info??? bad idea" -- Since it is essentially a wireless network, isn't your data about as secure on it as any data accessible if someone got into your home wifi network? "Sure nice idea, but wireless is inherently riskier than wired. There's also the issue of transfer rates." -- If I can stream movies on my wireless network from the internet, I imagine I can stream movies from this just the same?[/citation]
i get your point but your laptop you can install security software to help with the issuse....also if you use a router there is a hardware firewall...i still think it's a bad idea

 

[virtualban]

[citation][nom]rosen380[/nom]I might be *driving* from NY to Disney in August-- would be really sweet to have this with my iPad to entertain the will-be-three-year-old.Granted, I can also re-encode a bunch of her movies and get a boat load of low-end quality movies right in the iPad [she doesn't care ]. That may be alittle more work on my end, but also $200 cheaper[/citation]
Wait, you did what?!
Expect RIAA and MPAA knocking on your door soon, and your post here used as evidence!

 

[fir_ser]

Good gadget, I believe there's a market for such a thing, especially that it can also be used through USB interface.