Hi Ronni, Yep that is a downside.... I have a quite extensive photo library (34GB) and music library (78GB) which I often need to refer to when I travel, plus I do like to take movies and tv shows with me and books to while away the boring hours of journey time.... Goflex I see this as a way of doing all this without tieing up the space on my iPad. I will however have another look at the Kingston Wi-Drive..... has anyone any experience of this model?
I am sure like everything, a new and better model will be along soon, but at the moment the Goflex seems to fit the bill the best.... unless of course someone knows of something else that maybe released in the next 8 weeks before I set off again? David On 26/04/2012, at 6:30 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi David, You are aware that The Seagate GoFlex portable hard drive 500GB " The one downside to using the GoFlex Satellite is that, unlike the Kingston Wi-Drive, you can't connect to the Internet while you're connected to the Satellite. It's a bummer considering the connected nature of the iPad." <http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/storage/seagate-goflex-satellite.aspx> <http://forwardthinking.pcmag.com/hard-drives/291140-the-kingston-wi-drive-a-slim-way-to-expand-your-tablet-storage> <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388571,00.asp> Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 26/04/2012, at 4:39 PM, David Wood <macwo...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Peter, I am interested in the Seagate Goflex Satellite as well.... > depends what you read on the reviews, Cnet doesn't much like it but I have > read reviews from the US where people are raving about it, especially multi > iPad families. > > I am going to give it a go.... best price I have seen so far is $205 at > BigW...... cheaper in the US of course....$169 at Walmart and $179 at B&H New > York. > > D. > > > On 25/04/2012, at 1:19 PM, Peter Sealy wrote: > > I have an iPAD 2 and am considering purchase of an external storage unit such > as the Seagate GoFlex Satellite or Kingston Wi-Drive. There are quite a few > of these devices on the market now and I am asking whether any of the gurus > here use any of them. > > Any comments, road tests, pluses/minuses, etc? Comments I have seen on places > such as Amazon on all of these units seem very mixed. > > Appreciate any views. > > ............................. > > Peter Sealy > Thurgoona AUSTRALIA > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
