Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Gauntlet Node from Patriot. This is
and cameraman. Okay, cameraman insists that I tell you guys that he did not
understand what this product did based on the packaging and I sort of actually
see his point. So, it streams wireless music, videos, and pictures. Um, tablet
friendly up to two terabyte drive not included. Google Play available on the
app store unless until you get down to sort of the finer sort of details here.
Up to eight simultaneous mobile devices. Tablet friendly. Up to two TB hard drive
included. Okay, these are all the same things we've seen already. Um, okay. I
kind of see cameraman's point. However, maybe when we get to the back, we will
understand like more better. Uh, the Gauntlet Node offers seamless
integration with tablets and other popular mobile devices for a truly superior portable storage solution. Aha!
Portable storage for your tablet or your phone or other mobile device with the
ability to connect up to eight devices at a time and app support for iOS,
Android, and Kindle Fire and plug-and-play compatibility with Windows-based operating systems. The
Gauntlet Node provides an extremely robust and easy to use personal cloud
for immediate access to stored media and data. With a built-in battery, the
Gauntlet Node will support up to 5.5 hours of continuous streaming for the
ultimate entertainment solution on the go. Wi-Fi N 150 megabit per second uh
web and WPAPS key security is supported
non-replaceable battery up to 5.5 hours of continuous streaming. So what is this
thing? This is basically like a free agent Goflex satellite except that you
don't actually have to buy a free agent gooflex satellite. It's also like uh
Kingston's wide drive. So what you do is
you you know get all your accessories and hoo-ha and ddads and whatnot going
on here. So, you got all your components and you take your 2 and 1/2 in drive,
which is here. You install it in here.
You use a USB connection to drop whatever data you want onto the
drive. That there. Okay. Oh, it's USB 3. Oh, awesome.
That's way better than the free agent Gooflex. Actually, that one's USB 2,
which makes it like slow and inconvenient to actually load things on it. So, it comes uh hold on. See, how
does this work? Oh, there we go. Oh, that was easy. It's just a sliding
thing. Okay. So, you throw your drive in here. You install your drive. All the uh
the battery. See the battery? You can feel where the battery is cuz it weighs a lot on this side. Batteries here.
Wireless chipsets and all that are there. Data connections
here. Uh you got your aha power USB
connection. So, that's how you charge it. And uh it goes in there like that.
You've also got uh just a dedicated power in. I guess that might also charge
it. I don't know. Something probably charges it. Uh comes with an adapter for
USB. So you Yeah. Okay. It looks like you can You know what? Why don't we just
find out how to charge this thing? All right. So, we figured it out. your Asian
powered devices AC adapter, which you can unplug like that, plugs in by USB to
either the dedicated charging port or
the USB 3 port, and it will charge it either way. So, don't worry too much
about it. In fact, it's mindboggling to me that they even bothered to include a
DC in. But um yeah, I mean I I guess uh if you're
transferring data from your notebook and you don't want to power the drive off
your notebook and then you plug this into the wall next to your notebook, but
then that's not a very mobile solution. If you're using a notebook on a battery, you probably don't have um a wall
charger nearby. So, okay. Okay. Cameraman's shaking his head at me because apparently that's pretty
farfetched. So, let's go ahead and take this apart. Uh there's your power. No,
not power. Something else. Oh, that might check your battery. that battery
life indicator. So, you got four little LEDs there. That's kind of neat.
Okay, so there you have it. 5 and a half hours of battery life. We're going to
have to actually try the app before we can determine. So, so wait, stay tuned
for our full NCX tech tips on this one where we actually try it out. And uh I
think that pretty much covers it. That's the Gauntlet Node from Patriot. Don't forget to subscribe for tech tips for
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