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Sometimes, there are rainy nights when you’re on holiday abroad, stuck in a bedroom with bored children and nothing to do. You’ve got your iPhone and iPad but the internet is poor and (although you’ve paid for the service!) Amazon and Netflix won’t work. That’s where this little portable hard drive with its own wifi really comes into its own! It’s a light, compact, sturdy portable hard drive with its own wifi. Only slightly bigger than an iPhone it’ll slip easily into any side pocket - so it’s no problem to cart around. I’ve never failed to get it’s wifi to log on to my iPhone or iPad (so long as you’re not more than 5yds or so from the unit). It takes a minute or two to log on. If you wish it can hitch on to an existing internet too (you can password it for better security if you want) so you don’t have to toggle between two wifi signals. It packs some punch - it’s 2Tb capacity packs 500 movies, 40K of pictures, 25K of songs and all the documents you need to work on whilst you’re away and there’s still room for plenty more! You download a little Seagate app to watch your movies. It charges using a handy little plug with adaptors for use UK and abroad. A detachable USB lead goes into this (or your computer) and the lead connects to the unit itself by way of a queer non-standard plug. When using the drive, I tend to leave it plugged in - but it certainly lasted a couple of movies on battery alone when I didn’t. A couple of people (maybe up to four - but I haven’t tried that!) can watch different movies at the same time. Downsides? Well of course you have to load it before you go and that takes time. I think it comes loaded for windows as default but files have seemed easily accessible on my IOS devices too. (I IOS-formatted its 1Tb predecessor with little difficulty). I’ve found it easy to load with files from my iMac (as a simple hard drive) and haven’t found any indexing delays as some reviewers have reported - but I have to concur with those reviewers who say it’s sometimes a bit dicky to switch off when a stubborn LED remains on. Then, switching the unit on and off again seemed to put it firmly to bed but maybe this is something Seagate should look at and fix. I’ve only once been let down by a Seagate portable - and that by its 1Tb predecessor - when it tried automatically to upgrade itself in an area of poor internet; then I couldn’t get it to switch back on again. (You press the on/off switch for 30 seconds or use the tiny hole under the unit to reset it, but you might need internet then). I’ve said the unit is good value for money. I certainly think so - but at around £150 from E-Bay it doesn’t come cheap. But then again, I guess there’s a price to be paid for carrying around most of your entertainment in a device little bigger than a cigarette packet! I’m just an ordinary Joe Soap with no particular computer savvy. I think this is a brilliant little piece of kit and I wouldn’t like to be without it. If this review tips you into buying one I hope you find it as useful as I do!Read full review
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Great product. Works well, quick and comprehensive backup. 100% retrieval after hard disc failure. So good I bought another one.
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