Space, the final frontier. This space frontier stops at 500GB, but nobody is going to complain. Seagate has announced the GoFlex Satellite hard drive companion for your iPad for $199.99. And best of all, it’s wireless!
Mostly targeted toward movie lovers, the drive can be used by those with lots of music, image, or other files as well. Appealing to practicality, Seagate doesn’t highlight the impressive 500GB amount of space but mention storage for up to 300 movies. It’s not about the specs, it’s about how you use your iPad.
The iPad comes in the different memory storage capacities, 16GB, 32,GB and 64GB. Using an external drive with an iPad is not a new idea, but using it wirelessly is a nice feature plenty of people will enjoy and take advantage of. Users can manage file transfers to and from the GoFlex Satellite by going to the settings section on their iPad to make sure a notice for the GoFlex personal Wi-Fi network is present.
There is a USB connection cord which allows the user to connect the hard drive to a Mac or PC. Files can be transferred from the computer to the external drive and then uploaded to the iPad through a wireless signal. The drive acts as a wireless hotspot, but only serves files and not the Internet.
You can enjoy watching movies wirelessly for up to 5 hours thanks to its battery and stream to 3 separate devices through the drive. Use the drive with other devices like iPhone and iPod, too.
Pre-order the GoFlex Satellite now through amazon.com
. The external drive is expected to be released in July.
iPad News Via: ft.com
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