This is the Kingston Yrive. And this thing is really, really cool. That's it.
That's the whole video. I'm going to just
leave. Nah, I'm just kidding. Okay, so the W drive, what's cool about it? The
Wide Drive allows you to share your media content with up to three devices
simultaneously using this as a portable
wireless access point. Now, what's cool about the YRive compared to other
competing solutions is that the YRive
allows you to connect to its Wi-Fi access point and still browse the
internet on your mobile device. I know, right? So, it allows upstream and
downstream connections to Wi-Fi access points. So, basically what I'm doing is
I have my router in my house. I have the
Y drive sitting on the table next to me
and then I have my iPhone somewhere in the same room. So, I'm connecting my
iPhone to the YRive. I'm connecting the Yrive to the router and through that I'm
able to access the media that I'm sharing on the YRive and I'm also able
to access the internet. Now it will feel a little bit slower because it is being
relayed but for the sake of being able to access your media content and the
internet at the same time I think it is worth the additional delay. So Wrive is
uh available on the app store. There is an app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod
touch. Okay. There's also no other
information on here at all. Let's have a look at what's included with the YRive.
So, we've got a wall adapter, which comes out like
that. Lock and loose. Kind of has a very
satisfying click sound to it. Anyway, uh there's also a USB
charger. So, the wide drive, as I mentioned before, supports up to three
consecutive users. And I have a bunch of notes about things like battery life,
but I forgot to print them out and I forgot to load them up on my phone. So,
you guys are going to have to bear with me for a second. We're going to turn the camera off and I'm going to look up my
cheat sheet. So, here's the Yrive unit itself. It is backed by a one-year
warranty from Kingston with 24/7 tech support. So, that's something to bear in
mind. It al also a pocket-size device. So, actually here, why don't I compare
it to the iPhone? So, it's basically like carrying around another iPhone, and
all you're doing is you are increasing the storage capacity, whether it's by 16
gigs or by 32 gigs. So, my box says 32 gigs, but this unit itself is actually a
16 gig unit just cuz it's an eval. So, it was not really in a miss in the
correct in the correct box. Now, you can see up here at the top of the Y drive,
that's where the USB port is. So, you can either use that for charging the
device, and the battery lasts for up to 4 hours, or you can use it to transfer
data to the Y drive from your home computer, whether it's a PC or a
Macintosh. So, over here, we've also got a power button, what appears to be a
little reset switch recess. Okay. Down
on the bottom, we find nothing. Over on the left, we find nothing. Here we find
a little tab so that we can put it down on the
table without ruining the finish of the YRive unit
itself. Uh oh yeah, also of note uh compared to competing solutions, the
YRive is fairly low capacity. So that's
something we have to live with because it is an SSDbased device. So that means
that in terms of durability, I can very comfortably drop
the Y drive. No. And I I still I don't
recommend doing this to yours. Yes, you have a one-year warranty, but don't like
chuck it around. But I can be confident that even if the casing is damaged, if I
drop it down on the concrete, the actual data inside of it should be very safe
because it is a solidstatebased storage medium. So, this particular one has a 16
gig SSD in it. There is a 32 gig available. And I think that pretty much
covers everything I wanted to say about the Wide Drive. So, in summary, there's
an app. Okay. Um, it allows you to
extend the storage of your iOS device. You can access it with up to three users
at a time for up to four hours. And it is a solidstatebased storage device,
which means your data will be safe. Thanks for checking out this unboxing.
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