GoFlex Satellite Lets You Access 500GB of Movies from Your iPad/iPhone

I originally have a 16 GB 3g iPad, and last week I ordered the iPad 2 also in 16 gb because I couldn't justify the premium Apple is charging for its largest storage iPad which is still only 64gb.

I just saw this and I will definitely be getting it and thought a lot of people would want to see this:

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This is actually quite nice, You get this 500 GB hard drive for $200. Plus you can stream HD videos to your iPad (You can see in the video a 1080p clip streaming very smoothly)

Source:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/16/seagates-goflex-satellite-portable-hard-drive-streams-content-o/

So whats your thoughts? Do you think its a good solution, or do you not like it?

Cheers.

I wonder if you could setup port forwarding to access it on the go or something

That. Would. Be. Awesome.

not seeing the point here. I don't use my iPad as a storage device. the limited space is managed by moving content in and out via iTunes.

My Mac Mini has a 320gb HD and I use a 2Tb drive for all my music, movies, etc.

Why would you need 500gb to back up a device that only can store 16gb at one time? Isn't your iTunes library on a laptop or desktop with more storage?

I thinks mainly for portability when you're not home. Cuz how u going to carry your Mac with u?

Looks like it's available for pre-order at this point (Best Buy and Seagate's site list it as pre-order, Amazon says 3-5 weeks).

Very cool, though. Might solve my issue of wanting to have all my music available in my car but not having an iPod Classic / iPad with enough storage. Be interested to see how well this works.

not seeing the point here. I don't use my iPad as a storage device. the limited space is managed by moving content in and out via iTunes.

My Mac Mini has a 320gb HD and I use a 2Tb drive for all my music, movies, etc.

Why would you need 500gb to back up a device that only can store 16gb at one time? Isn't your iTunes library on a laptop or desktop with more storage?

Maybe because as a streaming device it suddenly adds 500GB of video content to your iPad?

I really like this product, and might just buy one. This seriously has nice implications for anywhere where you can't access cloud-based storage: think airplane trips, or car rides for those of us with iPads who don't want to spend the significant money to tether an iPhone or mobile hotspot.

In the past, I have tried to go through and select a portion of my library to sync up to my iPhone/iPad, but I've always ended up being disappointed in the end that I end up wanting something that I haven't synced (my music/video library is considerably larger than any iPad/iPhone can hold).

I am really looking foward to this. Planning on carrying my entire 200GB itunes music collection, mounting the drive in my car and using my ipad as a front end (mounted in place of the head unit). Would be a kickass car stereo upgrade.

I only have 3 concerns. First is that this drive doesnt integrate the music library into the ipod app on the ipad(not sure if apple even allows this yet), forcing you to use the seagate app to access the drive. Second is that the seagate app doesnt support multitasking. Meaning if i exit the app, the music stops. Third, once connected to the drive via wifi, there appears no way to access the internet via 3G.

In spite of that, i still really want this drive. Been wanting to integrate the ipad into my car stereo for ages and ive finally found a way to do it

Any idea of you could stream Apple DRM protected video from this onto an iPad? Probably not.

Tony

Actually, my educated guess is "yes". As long the computer you sync your iPad to is authorized to play the content, then it should play just fine.

I stream DRM-protected media from my iMac to my iPad via my WIFI via HTTP using a third party tool (the name escapes me right now). I started using it before iOS supported Home Sharing, and I still use it because Home Sharing on my iPad doesn't work.

I just bought a 3tb drive for $149. I'd say the Seagate is slightly overpriced, wifi or not.

Your 3TB drive is a full size drive designed for a desktop computer. The drive in this thing is a laptop sized hard drive designed for running on battery power. Hardly a comparison there, the 3TB drive is not available in a small form factor... The largest drive right now is 750 gigs (or maybe they have hit 1tb).... But those larger drives use more power, so probably wouldn't work well with this.

Is this device a wifi network, or does it connect to a wifi network. IOW, does this show up in the list of networks as something to connect to?

Because, if so, that means you have no internet access on your iPad while it's connected to this drive, because you can't be connected to 2 wifi networks at once, and also you can't use 3G and WiFi data at the same time.

If I'm sitting on a plane, I can easily change networks when I want to surf vs. watch content. Not a big deal.