Good device. But the battery should should have been more. It runs out of power in a few hours which is a disadvantage being such a costly device. You need to install the seagate app to access the content of the harddisk. Anywys the harddisk is good. One can purchase it if wanting to spend extra money.

I got this Wireless External HDD so that I can easily connect it with my devices without the hassle of wires. This is a real boon for mobile phones or tablets. Store all that you want and connect it to the phone and theoretically your phone has 1 TB of space! Well its a good theory... The problem is the battery does not last and it needs to be charged like after an hour. More over the after a full charge in a few days it gets fully discharged even without being used. Also to connect to the device the mobile/tab's Wi-Fi needs to be turned on and that by default kills the mobile data. So either you watch a movie from it on the phone without data or get wireless internet at home, connect this HDD to the wireless router and then connect the phone/tab to the router. Both the issues are bad news if this is intended for travel. What is it good for, well, keep the charger plugged in and use it as a media server around the house. Small portable and easy. Another glitch with this is that the file server application on the HDD crashes and the files are not accessible all of a sudden. The HDD needs to be re-started to fix the issue. The wired speeds are good like any other HDD but that is not what this is intended for. The wireless speeds are adequate for 2-3 devices. I guess 3 devices can stream HD movies all at once without much issues. For me I use this mainly to carry my stuff while I vacation. All the files I need and my tab can do most of my work. I need not carry a laptop for the HDD space. I also occasionally watch movies on the tab while the HDD is connected to the charger. The charging points are very unreliable in the trains and buses(I had a phone charger spoiled in the train once) and in flight, well, wireless cant be used. So this is useless while travelling. Only can be used after you reach the destination hotel. Overall this is an innovative product. It has its glitches like every new product in the market, but that is ok for me because I do not use it very heavily.

I received this product just now and my first impression is awesome.. However the price I paid to the product is too costly. 11k is too much for a Wifi enabled hard disk. If this would have come with 8k it would have been worth the money. Just 3k extra. Nevertheless, a new technology under external hard disk category and worth the try. I can connect this seagate hard disk to my phone... Thats plus for me as I need not store songs, videos in phone anymore, just carry the hard drive in my bag and enable wifi. Its by default supported. Update: 29-Jun-2014 Just an update to above points. I have been using this HDD for a long now and following problems found: 1. Cannot connect to my PS3 as this HDD does not support FAT32 and supports only NTFS, exFat. 2. The usb cable given with this HDD is very very small... if I connect it to my wall mounted TV it hangs in there... need to buy extra table just to keep the HDD. May be get a new longer USB cable. 3. At the seagate syc andriod app, there is an option to connect to wifi from the hard disk but it does not work. Even if the normal wifi internet comes with your mobile, the moment you connect this hard disk, internet stops working and cannot connect again inspite of options available. But apart from above, it still is working very good with respect to Wifi and as a normal External HDD. Nice product though. Update on 25-Sep-2014: Wireless does not work when you have more than 500 GB of data. It always says System Health Checkup please wait.... I raised a ticket in Seagate support and no response to it. No update from the Andriod App as well. Suggest not to buy the wireless version as it worked in the initial days and later it stopped working. Better to buy the normal seagate external hard disk. Waste innovation if the issue is not fixed.

It's a perfect partner for your ipad. Could connect with ios and android devices with dedicated app. It also does have a connector cable that could connect to PC in USB 3.0 mode, that is like regular hard disks. Since I am an ipad user, my review mostly covers ios. Users might need to upgrade firmware first, especially if you are using ios7. My ipad continuously was getting disconnected from hard drive before upgrading to latest firmware. Now it's pretty much smooth.Firmware upgrading is pretty straightforward and just needs a drag and drop and switching on wifi. The seagate media app only supports mp4 and few formats. So you can only stream those. However, you can copy/download other formats to your ipad wirelessly using seagate media app and open using third party apps if you choose to. So I keep 1 or 2 gigs free for that purpose. Battery life, I haven't got time to evaluate, but i don't think 10 hours as advertised is achieved here. Seagate media app only has landscape mode, but once you start streaming, videos can be viewed in both portrait and landscape. You could also connect using PC. Once connected there is a web portal which opens through internet explorer from which you could copy files(no internet reqd). This is similar to seagate media app interface, only difference being, it is opened through ie. you can upload and download files. I think streaming is also possible. I din check. Wifi range is good. If you have a wifi internet, you can connect to seagate hard drive first and through seagate media app, you can simultaneously connect to internet. However, when you are connected to hard disk wirelessly, you cannot browse using mobile data(3G). This is only downside that I see, since my ipad is wifi+3G and I use 3G a lot. But since while you are streaming, you rarely need internet, I think I could live with this. Since prices might be fluctuating in online vendors, please take time to see a good deal over different sites before your purchase. I am taking one star off for battery and 3G data not supporting. Otherwise I wudv given 5 stars. My main intention of putting the review is that users should know how it works before buying. Update: Using 3rd party apps like PlayerExtreme to stream this HDD is way better than seagate's default app for this hard drive.