We had been contemplating on getting an external hard drive for our little home network for some time. After our second PC went town in one month we pulled the trigger, a day late for some of our files but it's up and running now.
I am pretty far from being tech savvy so something that is relative easy to use was important as well as something that we could use with the iPhone's.
My son recommended a couple of drives and the one we selected was the Corsair Voyager Air 1TB. Some of the features that stood out were
1. It works with all of Pam's iThingy's
2. It is wireless or can be
3. It has an Ethernet connection
4. It has a USB (USB 3) if your computer supports that
5. It has a battery which claims to be good for up to 7 hrs
6. It's small and portable
From some of the reading I did it appears the Voyager combines the best of the other small portable drives.
I haven't attempted to watch any movies from this on any of the iThingy's yet but it claims that you can stream movies to 5 devices at a time. With the car charger (USB with a cigarette lighter adapter) this would be a great device to keep the kids (large and small) entertained during a road trip. We thought it would be great to have this to take on vacation since we seem to take a lot of pictures.
It set up fairly easy, when I got it and unpacked it there was the, USB 3 Cord, Power Cord, Car Adapter, Travel Pouch and of course the Drive which measures 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" x 1". I let it charge overnight and the next day set it up. I plugged it into the router with the 10/100 base T connector or the Ethernet cable (whatever it's called) turned it on and found it in the network. I went into the settings and re-named it then added a security code or password for the wireless.
After you locate the drive on your network, right click on it and select "map network drive" this will add it to your computer where your other drives show up.
One thing I didn't do that I would suggest doing is enabling the "Pass Through" feature. This allows your internet for your iPhone/Pad/Tablet to "pass through the Voyager when you are viewing files on the voyager with your iThingy. The apps worked fine but neither Chrome or Safari would access the net until I turned this feature on when the WiFi was connected to the Voyager.
One of the things I read is that if you have USB 3 that you can actually download a 2 hr HD movie in about 30 seconds. I haven't tried that yet and right now I'm moving about 300 Gigs of Data and it said it will take like 13 hours with the USB (which seemed like a long time to me) and I am pretty sure the old laptop does NOT have the USB 3.
I have a FirmWare upgrade or update to do and will report back after I've got that installed.
If you have any questions or comments fire em off.
Update 7/5/2013
Regarding the iPhone and other Apple products to use them with the Air Drive you need to download the Voyager Air app from your app store, I would imagine it's the same for the Droid phones as well. After the app is installed go to your settings, then open up the WiFi and select the Voyager Air WiFi or whatever you have re-named it, the first time you log onto that WiFi connection you will need to enter your password for it. Go back to the Voyager Air app and open it up. For there to be full internet access through the Air Drive in the Settings for the Voyager Air drive and check to be sure "Passthru" is enabled and that your WiFi is listed next to it. If it's not just click on enable, select your WiFi and enter the password for it. EzPeezy.
Now to transfer info from from your iPhone/iThingy to the Voyager Air Drive - in the Air app go to the folder you want the picture, music, video or whatever you want to put on the Air drive, at the bottom of the screen is an icon of the Air Drive with an arrow click onto that and a screen with Four (4) option will appear "Photos" , "Video's" "Local Files" or "Cancel", select the location your data is at, then simply select the ones you want to transfer and tap the "Done" button in the top right and you've got it!!
I am pretty far from being tech savvy so something that is relative easy to use was important as well as something that we could use with the iPhone's.
My son recommended a couple of drives and the one we selected was the Corsair Voyager Air 1TB. Some of the features that stood out were
1. It works with all of Pam's iThingy's
2. It is wireless or can be
3. It has an Ethernet connection
4. It has a USB (USB 3) if your computer supports that
5. It has a battery which claims to be good for up to 7 hrs
6. It's small and portable
From some of the reading I did it appears the Voyager combines the best of the other small portable drives.I haven't attempted to watch any movies from this on any of the iThingy's yet but it claims that you can stream movies to 5 devices at a time. With the car charger (USB with a cigarette lighter adapter) this would be a great device to keep the kids (large and small) entertained during a road trip. We thought it would be great to have this to take on vacation since we seem to take a lot of pictures.
It set up fairly easy, when I got it and unpacked it there was the, USB 3 Cord, Power Cord, Car Adapter, Travel Pouch and of course the Drive which measures 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" x 1". I let it charge overnight and the next day set it up. I plugged it into the router with the 10/100 base T connector or the Ethernet cable (whatever it's called) turned it on and found it in the network. I went into the settings and re-named it then added a security code or password for the wireless.
After you locate the drive on your network, right click on it and select "map network drive" this will add it to your computer where your other drives show up.
One thing I didn't do that I would suggest doing is enabling the "Pass Through" feature. This allows your internet for your iPhone/Pad/Tablet to "pass through the Voyager when you are viewing files on the voyager with your iThingy. The apps worked fine but neither Chrome or Safari would access the net until I turned this feature on when the WiFi was connected to the Voyager.
One of the things I read is that if you have USB 3 that you can actually download a 2 hr HD movie in about 30 seconds. I haven't tried that yet and right now I'm moving about 300 Gigs of Data and it said it will take like 13 hours with the USB (which seemed like a long time to me) and I am pretty sure the old laptop does NOT have the USB 3.
I have a FirmWare upgrade or update to do and will report back after I've got that installed.
If you have any questions or comments fire em off.
Update 7/5/2013
Regarding the iPhone and other Apple products to use them with the Air Drive you need to download the Voyager Air app from your app store, I would imagine it's the same for the Droid phones as well. After the app is installed go to your settings, then open up the WiFi and select the Voyager Air WiFi or whatever you have re-named it, the first time you log onto that WiFi connection you will need to enter your password for it. Go back to the Voyager Air app and open it up. For there to be full internet access through the Air Drive in the Settings for the Voyager Air drive and check to be sure "Passthru" is enabled and that your WiFi is listed next to it. If it's not just click on enable, select your WiFi and enter the password for it. EzPeezy.
Now to transfer info from from your iPhone/iThingy to the Voyager Air Drive - in the Air app go to the folder you want the picture, music, video or whatever you want to put on the Air drive, at the bottom of the screen is an icon of the Air Drive with an arrow click onto that and a screen with Four (4) option will appear "Photos" , "Video's" "Local Files" or "Cancel", select the location your data is at, then simply select the ones you want to transfer and tap the "Done" button in the top right and you've got it!!
