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Handheld Drive Corsair Voyager Air Review

In view of a violent growth of mobile devices, the interest towards independent external storage solutions has increased immensely. Smartphones, tablets and other laptop devices do not have enough inbuilt memory to cope with the enlarging multimedia inventories. The emergence of handheld external drives with a wireless adapter and charger battery onboard is called to efficiently solve the problem of data storage. Corsair, a renowned manufacturer of storage and other hardware products, has recently introduced its own vision of handheld drives. Codenamed Corsair Voyager Air, this drive is able to operate in an autonomous mode, providing for enormous storage opportunities.

General Peculiarities and Delivery

Voyager Air comes into the market in several versions, which are differentiated by the capacity (500 GB and 1 TB models), case coloring (black or red), and a type of network power supply (for the USA and Europe). The drive boasts an inbuilt Wi-Fi adapter and features gigabit network interface. Therefore, the user can employ it as a part of home network, expanding its operational scenarios (i.e. fulfilling data backup). Corsair claims that its newest elaboration is able to work up to seven hours on end and to support simultaneous broadcasting of five HD-video streams.

One of the most advantageous features is absence of the necessity to acquire any additional software. Firmware updates can be uploaded from the manufacturer’s official site. Furthermore, the product is backed by 3-year’s warranty.

This drive is delivered in a bright cardbox with matte coating. It should be noted that the box itself is far too spacious for a traditional 2.5-inch device; however, this is the result of a rich delivery set. The latter embraces a power supply with USB output (5V, 2A), a power supply for the automotive electric lighter, a USB 3.0 cable, removable outlets for sockets, a separate cable for the drive charge-in, a special sack for accessories, and a brief user’s manual.

Design

Corsair Voyager Air features 81x140x28 mm dimensions and weighs 350 g. The case is made of prime-class glossy plastic. A part of the top and both side facets are covered by a soft-touch coating that facilitates the transportation of a drive. The rear facet houses a power supply socket, a micro-USB 3.0 socket, and gigabit network port with activity/speed indicators. The frontal panel comes with two switches: power switch and wireless interface switch. In addition, here one may find a set of indicators signalizing about the general drive activity, battery life, external charge-in, and Wi-Fi activity.

In Use

The new drive from Corsair allows for the employment of NTFS and HFS+ file systems. On connection via USB, the device works as a usual external storage with disabled network interfaces. High-speed USB 3.0 interface ensures that the maximal Read speed could achieve 100 MB/sec and the maximal Write speed – 90 MB/sec. The activation of the item is realized by pressing on a corresponding button; at the same time, in order to deactivate it, it’s necessary to wait till this button informs the software about the off mode. This way the information gets protected from loss or errors.

Network Operation

Voyager Air features a couple of network interfaces: wireless access point (AP) and wired gigabit. Wireless AP is supposed to be a better way of intercommunication between the drive and mobile devices. The inbuilt AP supports 802.11b/g/n standards with the maximal connectivity of 65 Mb/sec. The claimed by designer distance of operation makes up 30 meters, although on some conditions this distance reduces to 20 meters. Moreover, due to wireless connection, it’s feasible to activate DLNA server, which supports MP3, AAC, MPEG, AVI, JPEG, MP3, TS, WMV, and other file formats.

Wired gigabit connection allows for the usage of this drive as the simplest NAS with the access via a standard network Windows environment. IP address is given from router via DHCP. In this working mode all users get the access towards the drive’s web interface. The latter offers multiple settings that help in tuning the operation and interaction with the connected devices.

Interaction with Mobile Devices

With the purpose to efficiently interact with various mobile devices, the user needs to upload a free Voyager Air applet. Thanks to it, it’s possible to view, download, copy, rename the existing files and change their settings. Programs with a standard SMB protocol might easily work along with this applet. Usage of this protocol helps in realizing any operations connected with the data transfer and management.
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  • 27 September 2013, 18:05
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