Whether you have a tablet computer or a mobile phone, you can have so much fun with your mobile devices that you quickly run out of storage space for your videos, movies, music, apps, and documents. The Seagate Wireless Plus 1 TB Mobile Device Storage, which is a portable hard drive equipped with wifi, may be just what you need. Solutions like this greatly expand the amount of storage available to your device, so let’s take a look inside the box and see why a drive like this may be the most important accessory for your mobile phone or tablet.
My particular model has 1 TB of storage space, and you also get an AC adapter, cable for power, and a USB cable to connect the drive to your computer (in addition to instructions and warranty).
Though the drive comes with a USB cable to connect your computer and drive, the feature that opens up this drive for use with smart phones and tablets is its built-in wifi.
To access the drive from your mobile device, you must first install the free Seagate Media app from the Apple App Store, Google Play, or Amazon Appstore for Android.
Then, you connect your device using the Seagate wifi network access point.
Finally, on your mobile device, open the Seagate Media app. The tutorial helps you get started. With the app you can stream movies from the drive, as well as transfer files from your device to the drive and from the drive to your device.
The drive also includes a way to connect it to the Internet, so that you can access the Internet from your device if it is connected to the drive.
Up to 8 devices can connect to the drive at once, though Seagate suggests no more than 3 HD movie streams at any one time.
And, of course, you can also connect to the drive from your computer using its wifi network access point—once connected, point your browser to seagatewireless.com and you will see a similar interface as on the Seagate Media app.
With the 1 TB drive, even if you have just a 16 GB tablet, you can still have access to up to 500 movies on the drive. And the drive’s internal battery lasts for about 10 hours, giving you a portable storage solution useful especially while on travel.
In the video I show the unboxing of the Seagate Wireless Plus drive along with a look at its features:
I think you’ll find this drive is a must-have accessory for your iPad Air, Kindle Fire HDX, or other tablet or smart phone.
Available here: Seagate Wireless Plus 1 TB Mobile Device Storage with Built-In Wi-Fi Streaming
