Kingston Wi-Drive Portable Wireless Storage Device Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips.mpg
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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This is the Kingston Yrive. And this thing is really, really cool. That's it.
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That's the whole video. I'm going to just
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leave. Nah, I'm just kidding. Okay, so the W drive, what's cool about it? The
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Wide Drive allows you to share your media content with up to three devices
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simultaneously using this as a portable
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wireless access point. Now, what's cool about the YRive compared to other
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competing solutions is that the YRive
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allows you to connect to its Wi-Fi access point and still browse the
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internet on your mobile device. I know, right? So, it allows upstream and
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downstream connections to Wi-Fi access points. So, basically what I'm doing is
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I have my router in my house. I have the
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Y drive sitting on the table next to me
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and then I have my iPhone somewhere in the same room. So, I'm connecting my
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iPhone to the YRive. I'm connecting the Yrive to the router and through that I'm
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able to access the media that I'm sharing on the YRive and I'm also able
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to access the internet. Now it will feel a little bit slower because it is being
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relayed but for the sake of being able to access your media content and the
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internet at the same time I think it is worth the additional delay. So Wrive is
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uh available on the app store. There is an app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod
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touch. Okay. There's also no other
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information on here at all. Let's have a look at what's included with the YRive.
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So, we've got a wall adapter, which comes out like
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that. Lock and loose. Kind of has a very
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satisfying click sound to it. Anyway, uh there's also a USB
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charger. So, the wide drive, as I mentioned before, supports up to three
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consecutive users. And I have a bunch of notes about things like battery life,
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but I forgot to print them out and I forgot to load them up on my phone. So,
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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
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cheat sheet. So, here's the Yrive unit itself. It is backed by a one-year
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warranty from Kingston with 24/7 tech support. So, that's something to bear in
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mind. It al also a pocket-size device. So, actually here, why don't I compare
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it to the iPhone? So, it's basically like carrying around another iPhone, and
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all you're doing is you are increasing the storage capacity, whether it's by 16
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gigs or by 32 gigs. So, my box says 32 gigs, but this unit itself is actually a
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16 gig unit just cuz it's an eval. So, it was not really in a miss in the
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correct in the correct box. Now, you can see up here at the top of the Y drive,
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that's where the USB port is. So, you can either use that for charging the
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device, and the battery lasts for up to 4 hours, or you can use it to transfer
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data to the Y drive from your home computer, whether it's a PC or a
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Macintosh. So, over here, we've also got a power button, what appears to be a
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little reset switch recess. Okay. Down
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on the bottom, we find nothing. Over on the left, we find nothing. Here we find
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a little tab so that we can put it down on the
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table without ruining the finish of the YRive unit
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itself. Uh oh yeah, also of note uh compared to competing solutions, the
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YRive is fairly low capacity. So that's
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something we have to live with because it is an SSDbased device. So that means
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that in terms of durability, I can very comfortably drop
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the Y drive. No. And I I still I don't
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recommend doing this to yours. Yes, you have a one-year warranty, but don't like
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chuck it around. But I can be confident that even if the casing is damaged, if I
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drop it down on the concrete, the actual data inside of it should be very safe
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because it is a solidstatebased storage medium. So, this particular one has a 16
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gig SSD in it. There is a 32 gig available. And I think that pretty much
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covers everything I wanted to say about the Wide Drive. So, in summary, there's
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an app. Okay. Um, it allows you to
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extend the storage of your iOS device. You can access it with up to three users
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at a time for up to four hours. And it is a solidstatebased storage device,
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which means your data will be safe. Thanks for checking out this unboxing.
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