this product brings back some actually pretty amazing memories for me this
promotional video for the original Voyager air was actually the first
Revenue generating project that we ever did for lonus Media Group that was a
really uncertain time for us but we've kind of stuck together through the
amazing journey that the last year and a half has been and I feel like both my
team and I have grown and changed so much as content creators in that time
but what about the Voyager air how has it changed welcome to my video of the
Voyager Air 2 wireless media streaming drive from
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learn more out of the box the most obvious change is the industrial design
the Voyager air the red one in particular had an angular aggressive
looking style to it that I personally really liked and while the bottom of
this new generation product is buold gold and eye catching with a quality
feeling soft touch finish on the blue part and a nice grippy rubber ring to
keep it in place on the table unfortunately this design language
didn't carry over to the top where instead we find an unexceptional matte
and glossy black plastic Affair thankfully the glossy plastic accent
isn't easily scratched but it'll still always look smudgy no matter what you do
because the buttons for power and wireless are both built into it which I
guess leads pretty well into a physical tour of the unit on the front aside from
the aforementioned buttons there are indicators for remaining battery power
and DC power in then on the back there's a usb3 micro connector for charging and
data that Corsair includes a cable 4 as well as a 5vt 2 amp power input just for
charging that unfortunately corer doesn't include the cable 4 in fact the
accessory package has been slimmed down in a few ways you no longer get a wall
adapter a handy cigarette lighter to 2 Amp USB adapter or an accessory pouch
just a drive and a USB 3 cable and while normally I'd complain bitterly about
this Corsair does get a pass here because they are passing along a
significant price reduction to the customer so if you really want this
stuff you can just buy it yourself and you won't be paying any more than the original Voyager air all right so enough
staring at this black box what the heck does it actually do lonus great question
inside you'll find a few things first is a one tby hard drive second is a
wireless network card and third is a large 6200 Milah battery to power both
of those other things the hardware on its own actually doesn't do much it's
all about the software with the voyage R so start by powering up the drive and
turning on the wireless interface wait a minute or two and using a smartphone or
tablet there are apps for iOS Android and Kindle download the Voyager air app
connect to the Wi-Fi hotspot that the Voyager Air 2 generates on its own
launch the app and start setting up your new toy from the settings menu we can
configure Wireless pass through so devices connected to the Voyager Air 2
can also access the internet through another nearby Network set up a password
for the onboard Wi-Fi set up a DLNA media streaming server if
you want and set up automatic sync for Dropbox or Google Drive a feature that
makes the device much easier to load up prior to a trip or something very handy
active transfers is the next button down the Voyager air2 can either stream media
like the old one or here you can see the que of files that you've selected to
cach locally on your device to save power I prefer this approach since less
Wi-Fi streaming will cut down on battery use for both devices you can see and
manage everything you've cached in the download folder or by using any standard
File Explorer program on Android anyway speaking of managing files one of the
big complaints about early Wi-Fi drives was that you couldn't really do that
through the included apps nowadays with the Voyager rir 2 you can you so you can
view reorganize rename and delete stuff at will with the only drawback being
that's a little bit awkward and it's not the only thing that's a little awkward
about the UI the built-in music player is well integrated on iOS and you can
swipe up to change tracks and whatnot whenever music playing but on Android
when you want to get at it you need to launch the whole app rather than Corsair
throwing it in notifications or providing a widget and another Quirk
that I noticed here is that it's the only part of the Voyager air app where
you have to press the top left of the screen to go back because swiping in
from the left doesn't work which I guess
since we're in there now is the last stop in our little tour so I showed the
folder-based navigation and file management none of that stuff was really
new in the voyage rare software but Corsair has added some other stuff some
of which is not that important some of which is pretty great so using metadata
and tags Corsair tries to organize your files for you in four categories music
actually worked pretty well with it sorting by artist album Etc and even
doing a pretty good job of displaying thumbnails and whatnot but photos only
really let me sort by a year videos didn't sort at all with any of my stuff
even though Corsair said TV shows should split out by season and episode so let
me know if you guys have a different result there and documents ended up just
being a bit of a mess of desktop.ini files subtitle files and other random
junk that didn't fit into the other categories
now they're kind of getting there but there are a lot of ways that they can
continue to improve this and I think the big thing missing right now is granularity how come I can only sort my
uncategorized videos alphabetically why can't I sort by whatever has been most
recently transferred to the drive and then why isn't there a search function
so I don't have to rely on tags that sometimes work or manually scrolling
through endless lists of random files
which I guess sort of leads me to another positive point it's got support
for thirdparty media players now so you can use o player or VLC or whatever else
instead of worrying about running all your videos through handbreak before transferring them to the Voyager air
this is Handy but my dream device would
be even better than that while addressing the whole metadata thing um I
guess I'll need to wait a few more years for this but I'd really like to see something that has a Plex server running
on it or something like that that transcodes media on the Fly the Voyager
Air 2 has improved over the original one but not to that degree which leads us
into our conclusion on the hardware side
nothing from my big wish list has really
improved there's still no dualband Wireless a key feature for media
streaming and wireless still turns off
as soon as you plug something in via USB meaning that without a DC plug adapter
you can't power the drive off of an external source and stream at the same
time on the software side while it's certainly not perfect it is better
better enough to call it a sequel to the original one even though it's lacking
the Ethernet port tough to say especially since
they're not getting rid of the original Ethernet equipped model and that one
gets all the new software updates as well so this review puts me in a bit of
a weird position where I have to call the name Voyager Air 2 kind of
misleading when it isn't better than the first one really in any way
but I also have to give kudos to Corsair for supporting their 18-month-old
product with new software when they could have just as easily abandoned it
and told their customers no you need the new Voyager air to for that so basically
the same conclusion as last time it's a concept that I like even though its
utility is limited to pretty specific use cases now with 30% more gen I guess
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