Patriot Gauntlet Node Wireless Storage Device Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Gauntlet Node from Patriot. This is
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and cameraman. Okay, cameraman insists that I tell you guys that he did not
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understand what this product did based on the packaging and I sort of actually
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see his point. So, it streams wireless music, videos, and pictures. Um, tablet
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friendly up to two terabyte drive not included. Google Play available on the
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app store unless until you get down to sort of the finer sort of details here.
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Up to eight simultaneous mobile devices. Tablet friendly. Up to two TB hard drive
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included. Okay, these are all the same things we've seen already. Um, okay. I
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kind of see cameraman's point. However, maybe when we get to the back, we will
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understand like more better. Uh, the Gauntlet Node offers seamless
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integration with tablets and other popular mobile devices for a truly superior portable storage solution. Aha!
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Portable storage for your tablet or your phone or other mobile device with the
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ability to connect up to eight devices at a time and app support for iOS,
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Android, and Kindle Fire and plug-and-play compatibility with Windows-based operating systems. The
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Gauntlet Node provides an extremely robust and easy to use personal cloud
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for immediate access to stored media and data. With a built-in battery, the
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Gauntlet Node will support up to 5.5 hours of continuous streaming for the
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ultimate entertainment solution on the go. Wi-Fi N 150 megabit per second uh
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web and WPAPS key security is supported
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non-replaceable battery up to 5.5 hours of continuous streaming. So what is this
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thing? This is basically like a free agent Goflex satellite except that you
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don't actually have to buy a free agent gooflex satellite. It's also like uh
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Kingston's wide drive. So what you do is
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you you know get all your accessories and hoo-ha and ddads and whatnot going
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on here. So, you got all your components and you take your 2 and 1/2 in drive,
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which is here. You install it in here.
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You use a USB connection to drop whatever data you want onto the
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drive. That there. Okay. Oh, it's USB 3. Oh, awesome.
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That's way better than the free agent Gooflex. Actually, that one's USB 2,
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which makes it like slow and inconvenient to actually load things on it. So, it comes uh hold on. See, how
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does this work? Oh, there we go. Oh, that was easy. It's just a sliding
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thing. Okay. So, you throw your drive in here. You install your drive. All the uh
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the battery. See the battery? You can feel where the battery is cuz it weighs a lot on this side. Batteries here.
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Wireless chipsets and all that are there. Data connections
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here. Uh you got your aha power USB
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connection. So, that's how you charge it. And uh it goes in there like that.
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You've also got uh just a dedicated power in. I guess that might also charge
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it. I don't know. Something probably charges it. Uh comes with an adapter for
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USB. So you Yeah. Okay. It looks like you can You know what? Why don't we just
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find out how to charge this thing? All right. So, we figured it out. your Asian
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powered devices AC adapter, which you can unplug like that, plugs in by USB to
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either the dedicated charging port or
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the USB 3 port, and it will charge it either way. So, don't worry too much
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about it. In fact, it's mindboggling to me that they even bothered to include a
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DC in. But um yeah, I mean I I guess uh if you're
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transferring data from your notebook and you don't want to power the drive off
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your notebook and then you plug this into the wall next to your notebook, but
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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
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charger nearby. So, okay. Okay. Cameraman's shaking his head at me because apparently that's pretty
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farfetched. So, let's go ahead and take this apart. Uh there's your power. No,
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not power. Something else. Oh, that might check your battery. that battery
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life indicator. So, you got four little LEDs there. That's kind of neat.
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Okay, so there you have it. 5 and a half hours of battery life. We're going to
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have to actually try the app before we can determine. So, so wait, stay tuned
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for our full NCX tech tips on this one where we actually try it out. And uh I
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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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