Seagate offers a line hard drives that work across all platforms, called Wireless Plus, which can act as hubs for all your digital devices; wired or wireless. It uses Wi-Fi to connect to portable devices and can be accessed by multiple people simultaneously. We had reviewed the 1TB model when it first launched last year, and found it to be a very interesting solution to the problems of storage and inter-accessibility.
Between then and now, Seagate has added support for Amazon’s Kindle Fire OS and the Windows 8/RT Modern UI. The companion app for Android and iOS has been totally revamped, and you can now write files to the drive from it. There’s also support for integration with Google Drive and Dropbox so you can pull files from these two cloud services as well.
We now have the new 2TB model with us for review. With a high price but equally high capacity, is it just a novelty or a genuinely practical tool? We find out.
Look and feel
The Wireless Plus is very thick, chunky and heavy by current standards for portable hard drives. That’s mainly because of the hefty battery which is rated for 10 hours of operation. The body is entirely plastic but the top has a brushed metal texture.
There’s a Micro-USB 3.0 on the rear like any other hard drive. There’s a power button on the left edge and two status LEDs on the front. One LED shows you the device’s charge status, while the other lets you know when it’s possible to connect via Wi-Fi.