{"id":491,"date":"2021-09-01T08:12:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T08:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/?p=491"},"modified":"2021-09-01T08:12:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T08:12:52","slug":"new-wireless-hard-drive-for-ipad-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/new-wireless-hard-drive-for-ipad-now-available.htm","title":{"rendered":"New wireless hard drive for iPad now available"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You can get it drivin’. You can get it flyin’. You can get it loungin’ in a hotel … Matter o’ fact, I got it now. Movies streaming from a wireless hard drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A new wireless hard drive from Seagate is set to revolutionise the way travellers store and share movies, photos and info while they’re on the move.<\/p>\n

The GoFlex Satellite hard drive is much like a standard USB hard drive, except that it has an inbuilt battery<\/a> that lasts for five hours between charges, and high speed Wi-Fi built in.<\/p>\n

As a result, anything a traveller has loaded on to the hard drive is available to their laptop<\/a>, iPad<\/a>, iPhone, iPod Touch or Android-based smartphone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Wi-Fi built in to the hard drive is the fastest available — the “N” type — which Seagate says will allow up to three iPads to stream a movie at once from the hard drive.<\/p>\n

(On the flip-side, it’s no more<\/em> than three — Seagate is limiting the maximum number of devices that can connect to the hard drive to three at any one time — a precautionary measure to ensure good performance for each user.)<\/p>\n

Laptop users can access files on the hard drive directly on their computers without an app — it comes up in My Computer or the Mac OS X “shared devices” list as a networked hard drive.<\/p>\n

It also comes with a compact A\/C wall charger<\/a>, as well as a car charger<\/a> for use on the road. (Nice that Seagate is not going down the path of providing nothing but the USB cord for charging, as Apple<\/a> has done with iPods nowadays.)<\/p>\n

HP 485041-003 battery<\/a> – Brand New 4400mAh Only AU $60.85<\/p>\n

Toshiba portege m500 battery<\/a> – Brand New 4400mAh Only AU $60.31<\/p>\n

Dell studio xps 1647 battery<\/a> – Brand New 4400mAh Only AU $72.05<\/p>\n

It comes with a three year warranty, too — longer than most bits of tech, and especially good for travellers who might be subjecting the drive to a bit of rough and tumble.<\/p>\n

The capacity of the hard drive is 500GB, which should be enough for 300 movies at 720P HD resolution.<\/p>\n

Seagate has made a special app for iPad\/iPhone\/iPod Touch which provides a menu system for accessing stuff stored on the hard drive. You can already download it from the iTunes App Store<\/a> though the drive itself won’t be available until July.<\/p>\n

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The one big downside of the drive is that because it creates its own Wi-Fi network (which isn’t connected to anything except the hard drive), any laptop or iPad connected to it can’t access the internet via Wi-Fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To get on the net, you have to disconnect from the hard drive’s Wi-Fi network and reconnect to another Wi-Fi hotspot, or a 3G network.<\/p>\n

Seagate says it is planning to fix this with a software update, making it possible for the GoFlex Satellite hard drive to act as a Wi-Fi extender for an existing Wi-Fi network such as one of the compact travel routers that many travellers user to set up a Wi-Fi network in their hotel room<\/a>\u00a0or one of the many MiFi type 3G\/Wi-Fi modems<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read More<\/p>\n

A few general laptop travel tips<\/a><\/p>\n

Power for Netbooks and Tablets<\/a><\/p>\n

Two New Must-Have Laptop Accessories<\/a><\/p>\n

Top 10 Best Rated Laptops Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n

How to Charge Apple TV Remote Battery<\/a><\/p>\n

Laptops move towards all-day battery life<\/a><\/p>\n

Dell updates Vostro laptop for better laptop battery life<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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