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The Arc midi R2 by fractal design features massive air flow and highly

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flexible liquid cooling support click now to learn

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more so the problem of not having enough storage space on your phone or tablet

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has kind of been a thing for a while so to speak and the new thing to deal with

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that thing is Wireless Storage so SanDisk is throwing their hat into the

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ring with the SanDisk connect Series so this is the wireless flash drive and the

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wirel media drive so these are intended to work with whether it's your PC or

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your Mac or your iOS device or your Android device phones tablets computers

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all that kind of stuff to expand your storage and allow you to access it

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wirelessly so they both support uh WPA2

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Wi-Fi protection access from around 150 ft they both support eight concurrent

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users for file sharing but this is where things start to get a little bit

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different so the flash drive let's do a quick tour of this one support streaming

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video to up to three concurrent users comes with 16 gigs of storage in it by

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default although you can increase that

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now I think they call it expandable storage but I wouldn't quite call it

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expandable storage because it's more like increasable storage because this

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contrary to what you might think from its form factor is not actually a thumb

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drive it's more of a micro SD card reader so it comes with a 16 gig micro

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SD card inside there you go so there's a SanDisk Ultra card in there um it also

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supports up to 4 hours of continuous streaming so that's around half the

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battery life of the larger media drive and I think that was the other main

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difference okay so fewer concurrent users for video and only 4 hours on a

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charge next up we've got the wireless media drive which actually has a really

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nice ID so this is more of the premium product so it's got kind of a nice

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textured uh Square finish on the top of it actually looks quite striking and

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then an aluminum band around the outside so there's the charging port it comes

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with a charging cable as well as a wall wart that should be I'm guessing a 500

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milliamp wall wart 300 milliamp wall

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wart okay there you go and then also

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this one has a power button right here and finally ah yes SD card expansion so

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there's 32 gigs inside and you can actually add additional memory to it as

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needed with a full-sized SD card this

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one supports five concurrent users for video eight hours of battery life and

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eight concurrent users for just general file sharing however with all of these

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devices I could tell you oh yeah this one charges just by plugging in via USB

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and then the power buttons here uh this one I mean the all these devices are

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pretty much the same thing except it's going to come down to software support

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so we're going to fire up the app and see how well it works so SanDisk

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actually has two separate apps one for the pen drive and one for the media

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drive so we used the media drive one just because they seemed to be pretty

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similar otherwise if you've ever used one of these before you'll be familiar with this so you basically just connect

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to the Wi-Fi network that it is it doesn't doesn't come with any Security

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on it by default but the good news is that when you go into the settings here

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I'm just going to go ahead and put this down right here so when you go into the settings it's really easy to figure out

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the default admin stuff so you just uh put admin admin and then you can log in

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update your firmware see your battery life all that kind of cool stuff which

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is neat you also have a few different ways to browse your files so you I

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generally prefer just looking at a directory structure so here we can check

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out my resume see here you go I haven't done one of those in a long time yay

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LinkedIn and then you can see there's some default music on

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here so it goes ahead it plays within its own Media Player app and

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unfortunately the media player app has very limited compatibility so we have

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some Approaching Nirvana songs that it unfortunately wasn't able to play

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because they are uh wave files um another example of sort of limited

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limited compatibility was you can see uh MP4s are the ones that are supported by

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the default app I wouldn't have minded seeing integration with third party apps

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like o player so this Adventure Time video plays just fine but here's a much

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higher bit rate file this is a 1080p file that I recorded with this phone and

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unfortunately playing back wirelessly uh does stutter a little bit I don't know

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if you guys can see that but it is able yeah see there it goes but it is able to

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play it back because it is compatible um

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other than that you're able to ah yes browsing photos so check this out it

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comes with some preloaded photos so you can go ahead and check those out takes a

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little while to load the first time so I was getting a little bit of loading time

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before but you can see it's not nearly as bad anymore so that's my old computer

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if you guys want to check that out got my all-in Wonder 9600 Pro in there so

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basically the conclusion is very small very compact great ID particularly on

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the media drive that is industrial design for those of you who aren't familiar with that but I would like to

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see some more maturity on the app itself

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one thing that I do like about it is that you have the option to download the

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files locally should you so desire so that should eliminate any kind of like

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stuttering or weirdness so I wouldn't mind seeing them um integrate sort of

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other third party players with the files that you can play back or I mean you

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look at how long someone like Seagate has been working on their Media Player

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app and sort of how mature that is so I think we're probably going to see this

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continue to evolve over time thank you for checking out this unboxing and

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