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Posted in Reviews, Storage Review I’ve been trying to go wireless on as many devices as possible, simply because it makes things a whole lot tidier. So when Seagate made the USB cable optional on their Wireless Plus portable hard drive, I had to give i...
The Seagate Wireless isn’t perfect, but scores big where it really matters: both wireless and wired performance, even living up to the 10 hours battery life claim. From a design point of view the Wi-Fi and battery goodness result in a drive that’s noti...
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The Seagate Wireless Plus 1 TB is an external HDD that can be accessed through a USB 3.0 port as a regular external drive, but also has a Wi-Fi interface, being wirelessly accessible by a desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Let’s test it! The Seaga...
The Seagate Wireless Plus 1 TB is excellent as an external disk drive. Using its USB 3.0 interface, it works exactly as the Seagate Backup Plus External HDD that we tested not so far ago. The performance is excellent.But it is more than a regular external...
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It is not easy giving the exact specifications of the Seagate Wireless Plus as Seagate does not tell us what drive they have put inside (and we do not want to crack it open), but as we will notice in the benchmarks there is a difference between this drive...
Fast USB 3.0 connection, Can handle multiple HD streams without any problems, Can function as a wireless bridge, Software not allows us to upload files from connected devices, Modular connection adapter making it possible to upgrade to other interfaces (i...
Only 2.4 GHz wireless connection, Speed degradation when using it as a wireless bridge, Androidapp lacks support for playlists, Has problems with highbitrate content (>2530 Mbps)...
The Seagate Wireless Plus is a fast external drive that can stream media to many devices at the same time without breaking a sweat. With the new features and the increased storage it is a great update to the old GoFlex Satellite. 82...
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Seagate and Corsair have sought to redefine what's possible with portable hard drives. No longer merely storage devices connected to a computer via USB 3.0, the very latest drives incorporate batteries and wireless connectivity. This makes them ideal stor...
Stylish looks, Very easy to use, DLNAcompliant, Can use web browser for PCs...
Could do with a few more options...
The Seagate Wireless Plus 1TB is a USB 3.0-connected hard drive and wireless streaming device presented in a good-looking chassis. Easy to use with a modern tablet through an attractive, intuitive interface, it makes it easy to keep and track the bulk of...
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vrworld.com Updated:
2014-08-30 05:40:48
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The Seagate Wireless Plus is Seagate’s latest offering in the space of portable hard drives. It continues the product line of wireless hard drives established by the Satellite. This new device came to us around the time of CES and really promised som...
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I love my iPad, but I made the mistake of buying a 16GB model—that's not enough storage for all my apps, home videos, movies, TV shows, photos, and documents. I can rely on cloud storage, but since my iPad is Wi-Fi only, I like having extra local storage...
Connects to WIFi Internet and can acts as an intermediary WiFi access point, No battery level indicator on drive...
Must connect vis USB to computer to delete files...
The Wireless Plus provides a ton of storage and easy accessibility for all my devices. It has found a place in my backpack next to my iPad—at least until the 1TB iPad eventually comes along...
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Seagate's Wireless Plus drive -- a follow-on to Seagate's last mobile wireless drive, the Seagate GoFlex Satellite -- is a great idea. Like the GoFlex Satellite, the Seagate Wireless Plus combines a small wireless router with a hard drive, but the Wire...
I don't recommend leaving home without the USB cable if you plan to transfer data to the drive.The Seagate Wireless Plus management software comes with the drive and runs on both PowerPC and Intel Mac computers using OS X (version 10.5.8 or later); it a...
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Media on the go, that’s the continued direction that mobile devices are heading. Whether it is a smartphone, a tablet, netbook, etc…, being able to enjoy media on the go is one of the many benefits these devices provide. However, even though available...
1TB Storage capacity, Doubled battery life over predecessors, Internet connectivity while connected to the Wireless Plus, DLNA support, Wireless file upload to the Wireless Plus...
No included battery power adapter, Limited media file support, TechwareLabs Gold Award...
I know I referenced the Seagate GoFlex Satellite several times throughout the review of the new Wireless Plus, but I felt it was important to know where this product was to appreciate how far it’s come. At $199, the Wireless Plus costs $20 over its pr...
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Seagate's Wireless Plus is a 1TB external storage device that provides users access to their media by broadcasting its own wireless network, thus removing the need for wires, Wi-Fi hotspots, and network access points. This feature, combined with the 150 f...
Fresh design, Up to 10 hours of battery...
App needs more development and UI improvements, Slow battery charge time...
The Seagate Wireless Plus provides users with an additional 1TB of untethered media capacity to use with smartphones and tablets. At the $199 price point, the device is reasonable with its increased performance and value compared to the option of buying t...
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computershopper.com Updated:
2014-08-30 05:40:53
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Hybrid drives are quite the trending topic—indeed, as a technology, they were . With the Seagate Wireless Plus, though, we need to add another definition to the concept: It's not a hybrid of a mechanical drive and a solid-state drive. It's a mashup of...
Speedy over USB 3.0 interface, Allows you to connect wirelessly to drive and Web at same time, Supports DLNA streaming...
Slow Wi-Fi speeds, Web interface lacks advanced features, No built-in user manual, Limited streaming connections supported...
A Wi-Fi-enabled 1TB external hard drive, the Wireless Plus has promise for multi-user media streaming—but make sure you really need the wireless features (and can make peace with the GUI) before you buy...
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Carrying your entire media library just became a bit easier with the Seagate Wireless Plus ($199.99) drive. It's a 1TB hard drive with a built-in battery, media server, and Wi-Fi router, so you can share videos, photos, and music on the road. Instead of h...
Caches media lists. Responds faster than previous iterations. USM connector. Large capaicty wireless storage for iOS devices, Kindle Fire, and Android. Passes Internet through. Works with some smart TVs and DLNA devices. Can use drag and drop or Media Syn...
Easily misplaced USM port cover. Some videos play in browser, some in the Seagate Media app...
Think of the Seagate Wireless Plus wireless media hard drive as a streaming photo, video, and music library for your family's phones, tablets, and laptops...
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Last year we reviewed Seagate's Satellite Wireless Hard Drive and were impressed; this year we're reviewing Seagate's Wireless Plus, the 1TB big brother, and we're blown away. The Wireless Plus gives you an incredible amount of storage in a handheld devic...
Perfect for apartment dwellers and anyone living in tight spaces, great color choices, truly foldable luggage, lightweight, comes with a polyurethane bag for storage, easy to use expandable handle with good wheel handling, available in several sizes, come...
This is soft luggage – so it's not going to protect fragile cargo very well unless it's packed full and lighter colors tend to show dirt...
The Seagate Wireless Plus 1 TB Hard Drive with Built-In Wi-Fi Streaming is a whole lotta drive with amazing features and a very slick app (and web app). At just $199, it seems like a no brainer. Even as a durable USB 3.0 1 Terabyte portable drive, it...
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bitbitbyte.com Updated:
2014-08-30 05:40:57
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With the debut of the Wireless Plus at CES this past January, I've been eagerly awaiting my shot at testing out Seagate's brand new wireless media hard drive. After ditching my MacBook Air – and all of it's storage – for the iPad, having portable storage...
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We first saw Seagate's GoFlex Satellite Wireless Storage device at CES 2011. ( Read the Review ) In March of 2012 we announced that the company was releasing a firmware update for the GoFlex Satellite that made it faster and more convenient. ( Read the po...
1 terabyte of storage, Simple drag and drop option for loading content, Easy step-by-step walk through setup, 10 hours of playback, Streams 3 HD movies at once (great on family road trips), Pass through means up to eight devices can access a single hotspo...
$200; Uses a mechanical, spinning hard drive for storage...
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At CES 2013, Seagate launched a new portable external hard drive which is simply called the Wireless Plus. This new drive, like its predecessor the Satellite, was designed with the mobile world in mind. It features wireless connectivity for smartphones, t...
Wireless data storage, Read and write to drive from smartphone or tablet, Easily portable, Connect to all types of IOS, Android, and Windows devices, GoFlex connection upgradable, Respectable battery life...
Android app feels incomplete, Web browser connection forces videos to download instead of streaming, Please drop by the Bigbruin.com Forum and feel free to post any comments or questions...
On a recent family trip across the country, the kids each had a tablet to keep them occupied. Every night, when we'd stop it would be time to load new videos to the tablets. The Seagate Wireless Plus would have saved time and headaches allowing all the vi...
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iPads and other tablets have progressed to the point where, frequently, you can leave your laptop at home. The real limitation of these mobile devices is inadequate storage space to carry all of your files. deftly solves this problem. The Wireless P...
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Last year, Seagate debuted the first portable wireless hard drive, which let you stream content to your iPad, iPhone or Android device. The second version, the Seagate Wireless Plus, does all that, plus addresses all of the issues we had with last yea...
Intuitive app, Can stream content from devices and be online at same time, Apple Airplay compatible, Streaming to Samsung Smart TVs coming soon...
Needs better battery life indicator, Below-average USB 3.0 transfer speeds...
Seagate's second wireless external hard drive improves upon the original in every way.
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Working and playing on the go, over competent mobile devices is real fun stuff-until you hit the ceiling for your storage capacity. When purchasing phones, tablets and laptops we try to aim as high as our wallets will fire. But often our ambition out dist...
Shawn Sanders 4.5 5.0 Read the review. There are a few niggling negatives. But this is a great devi...
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It wasn't long after buying my iPad a couple of years ago that I discovered one of my favorite accessories: Seagate's GoFlex Satellite drive .It's a battery-powered hard drive that connects to your device of choice via an ad hoc Wi-Fi network. You can bro...
Lastly, the drive is formatted as an NTFS device, and it must remain that way to work, which means Mac owners will need a special utility to write to it. The drive ships with one copy of Paragon's NTFS utility on it, but if you have a few Macs in your hom...
Convenience comes at a price. Drive is slightly bulkier and heavier than other 1TB options. iOS app can play most of your movies, but not all of them. NTFS stuff is a hassle for Mac owners...
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Newsflash: video files can really bloat up a hard drive. In an increasingly mobile device-oriented world, this scenario only gets worse. It's especially aggravating when your "hard drive" is only 32GB of flash storage on an iPad (or worse, the 8GB variant...
Streams HD content to three devices simultaneously; eight for things like documents and photos, 1TB capacity lets you use limited smartphone or tablet space for things other than media files, Extremely portable, easy to stow away in your carry on, Much ea...
App won't play MKV or AVI files on either Android or iOS devices, Mac users have to install NTFS driver, Battery life is a bit shorter than advertised, Ugly, The price tag—$200 is rather steep for a commodity product...
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Seagate's new Wireless Plus portable harddrive has 1TB—double that of its predecessor, for the same $200 price. It lets you stream to your iPad by creating its own Wi-Fi network. It's very useful—that is, if you have very specific needs.A 1TB portable dri...
Do you feel like you need this much space? Wireless Plus is a good product, but its for people who need more than 64GB of stuff with them all the time. If youre a creative professional—a film editor, an architect, or a designer—or you travel a lot, its...
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consumersearch.com Updated:
2014-12-17 03:11:29
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Versatile, but not intuitive. This drive's biggest plus is its versatility. Dong Ngo of CNET says it "works well as a fast portable drive or as a robust mobile media server." It works with any type of device; it can run for up to 10 hours on a battery cha...
Builtin WiFi, Fast streaming, Long battery life...
Not intuitive, Connection can be unstable...
The Seagate Wireless Plus provides 1 TB of storage that you can access wirelessly from up to eight devices. Professionals say it works well as a media server for streaming music and videos to portable devices. Most users also like it for this purpose, but...
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I'm well aware that this may sound like a fairy tale for some of you but once upon a time we all used to carry around 1.44" floppy disks with which we shared games, midi tunes (i recall several groups attending various competitions for such things - some...
Build Quality, Wired & Wireless Performance, Can Stream 3 HD Video Clips Onto 3 Devices, Data Sharing With Up To 8 Different Devices, Internet Connection Sharing With Up To 7 Different Devices, Built-In Lithium-Ion Rechargeable Battery, Seagate Media App...
Price (For Some)...
If i was to say that the Wireless Plus 2TB Mobile Device Storage is the fastest USB 3.0 compatible external hard drive I've tested to date I'd obviously be lying (you can tell by checking our charts after all) but i really doubt that was ever the intentio...
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People love their iPads, iPhones, iPod touches, and will most likely love whatever new iThings Apple comes out with in the future. They're fast, efficient, portable, capable of nearly anything you might want a desktop or laptop computer for, but there's a...
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I like when I get to look at products that compete with products I've looked at before. In this case, about this time last year I took a look at the AirStash. The AirStash is a little device slightly wider than a USB stick with its own wireless AP built-i...
3year warranty, Great performance sharing media, Connects to device and local network simultaneously...
Does not auto connect to remembered networks, Can't password protect device, files or folders, Battery life is closer to 5 hours vs. the specified 10...
In all honesty, I loved this little device. But while it performed wonderfully, Seagate has some work to do. Here's the list:I encountered several Page Not Founds in support documentation while testing.It doesn't auto connect to remembered networks like o...
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Seagate's Wireless Plus drive offers a terabyte of storage and a way to stash your videos, photos, music and documents or wirelessly stream them to your mobile devices.Seagate's Wireless Plus drive -- a follow-on to Seagate's last mobile wireless drive, t...
One thing that might make this drive better is if it was an SSD, which would make it more shock-proof and speed up data transfer -- but would also jack up the price significantly. The SSD issue aside, the Seagate Wireless Plus drive would be a grea...
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Would you like a device capable of functioning as USB-based storage, a Wi-Fi hotspot, an archive for your media, a streaming server, and a rechargeable battery? The six devices in this round-up are versatile, including a combination of those features. C...
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toptenreviews.com Updated:
2015-09-20 05:28:59
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The Seagate Wireless Plus 1TB portable hard drive is designed for use with every type of smartphone as additional storage space. It offers one of the highest levels of storage currently available. This USB flash drive for smartphones allows you to connect...
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Currently available in a 1-Terabyte capacity—as much storage as the hard disks inside current iMacs—Wireless Plus is roughly the same size as G-Connect: at 3.5” wide, 5” deep and 0.7” tall, it's actually a bit smaller in two dimensions and less than 0.1”...
Ever since Apple enabled third-party apps to access files that weren't stored inside iOS devices, developers have released external storage options for iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches -- most of them portable and/or wireless. Two years ago, Western Digit...
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What could be better than a portable hard drive? A battery-powered portable hard drive that provides its own Wi-Fi hotspot, of course. Corsair's Voyager Air and Seagate's Wireless Plus command hefty price premiums compared to more ordinary drives, but the...
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Expert reviews...
Wireless capability, Can stream video, audio, Can connect to multiple devices...
Wi-Fi transfer speeds can be slow, Wi-Fi connectivity can be glitchy, Limited media format support for streaming...
According to reviews, the Seagate Wireless Plus is the top choice among wireless external hard drives. It's versatile, too, able to act as a personal hot spot that can share an Internet connection with up to eight devices, and as a media streamer deliver...
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