ADATA Dash Drive AE400 Wireless USB, Card Reader, and Portable Battery Bank Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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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 more well I guess it was a
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matter of time someone was going to take
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the whole portable power bank thing for your cell phone or your tablet or
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whatever and they were going to say Well it has a battery in it already I guess
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it might as well do other stuff so ad data has brought us the ae4 400 which
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is a wireless storage device portable
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battery backup as well as it if I could
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get this plastic
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seal in there we go all right so it
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allows you it is a card reader it is a wireless data storage device as well as
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a power bank all in one so before the
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first time you use it wow look at this user guide it's like a bajillion Pages
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this better have like 16 languages in it uh please charge for eight hours before
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using and it has 1 2 3 4 5 6 7even
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8 11 languages in it all right well I'll give them a pass on that so the device
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itself is actually reasonably small considering that it's a 5,000 milliamp
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hour portable charger there you go it has a single SD card reader right there
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then it also has a button on the top a US USB port for charging this guy
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and then an additional USB port as an output for charging other things so I
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definitely understand why they have a bit of a beefy manual because there are
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some intricacies when it comes to using a device like this that's very allinone
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but actually only has one button they've taken the Apple approach of one button
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is good enough for everything you need to do but there's no touchscreen so
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basically here's here's how it works the one button is right here integrated into
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the pattern on the top of the device which is actually kind of nice looking Al maybe a little over the top for the
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more manly of our viewers there is a battery indicator here that is red
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orange or green depending on battery life as long as you're over 50% that'll
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be green and then there are little LED indicators that show you what
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functionality is enabled at any given time so right now we are in Wireless
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transfer mode which is actually kind of cool you download the dash Drive Elite
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app and let's face it it is not as featur as some of the other competing
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products that are dedic ated like media streaming devices like the Corsair
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Voyager air for example but what it does do is it allows you to very simply so
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I'm connected to the dash Drive air through Wi-Fi and it's just uh all the
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default settings are documented in the manual so that shouldn't be too
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difficult and then you can use it as a pass through to connect up to 10 devices
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to it at a time and still have internet access so I'm connected to it and then
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basically all I do is using either USB
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or an SD card either of which is fine you go to air Elite and it just gives
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you a directory listing of all your files so you can do oh I think I'm yeah
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I already scrolled down because I was using this before so you can um open up
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something like a Word document or PowerPoint should you see fit so here's
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a here's a PowerPoint from an episode of netlink weekly that's just going to open
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up right there so we can go ahead and presumably yep there we go just go back
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navigation is a little funny like back here will take me out of the app so you
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use up here to navigate I think this is because they use the same UI for iOS as
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well as Android which is um not really
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recommended but I mean it seems to be working what's oh no continue playing so
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we we'll play this again so what's great about the Android version is because
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Android actually with thirdparty players is able to support a pretty wide variety
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of media formats you can even play videos directly off of the USB drive
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that's plugged into the dash Drive air uh ae400 which is a complicated name for
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the product but whatever um on iOS I didn't have quite as much luck with that
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because the formats are a little bit more restrictive but you can see the app
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works in much the same way so there's the whole file transfer thing but it
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does more than that of course so you cycle through the different modes by
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clicking the button and it's going to take you a little while to get the hang of what the different indicators mean
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they're not that easy to see um but
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pretty much what you can do you can wirelessly read and transfer from USB or
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from SD you can use it as a power bank
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you can use it as a wired SD card reader
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so that's simply by plugging it into the computer the way that you normally
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intuitively would and it'll charge while you're doing that and then just plugging an SD card in and then last but not
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least it is uh wait I think I think that's I think that's it I'm having a
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hard time wrapping my brain around all the stuff it does share a wireless
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hotspot that wireless data transfer so there you go guys no real Frills no
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gimmicks but it's these devices are getting more and more integrated and I
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like this versus something that's just a power bank or just a mobile media
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