Recently, a new tech product has surfaced on the market - one that solves a very specific problem for a particular niche of media consumers.
There exists a digital media user base with larger-than-usual libraries. I’m speaking of anyone with multiple TB of media, whether it be audio, cinema and TV archives, CBR collections, ePub libraries, or any combination thereof.
Naturally for collections of this size, these consumers have a great passion for their media, and desire full-accessibility to their content at all times.
A percentage of these users have created a solution by holding-fast to their grandfathered-in unlimited cellular data plans, and use one of various dedicated home servers to make their data instantly accessible on any web-enabled device without any fear of data caps or throttling. (I am among these users.)
There remains however, a less-fortunate base of media consumers who don’t have the luxury of unlimited data or a dedicated server, (Subsonic or otherwise) to grant them the freedom they desire.
Which brings us to the solution of the personal, portable media cloud.
Seagate now manufactures a surprisingly small Wireless Plus Portable Hard Drive with its own built-in WiFi network and a 10 hr internal battery.
This device acts as your own personal (and portable) wireless network - on the road or off the grid, your media is always accessible, wirelessly to any device.
It is robust enough to stream up to 3 different HD movies to 3 different devices at the same time.
Use the Seagate Media App on any of your devices, or the codec-ready application of your choice. The Seagate Media App also works as a sync tool to backup your devices’ files to your portable HDD.
The 1.5 TB model is $155 and the 2TB edition is $197 - a small price to pay for the freedom it will bring. This product solves a very particular problem for a very small niche of users, but for those users it is exactly what they've been looking for.
