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The Canvio Aerocast looks like a standard black portable hard drive. It measures approximately 1 by 3 by 5 inches (HWD) and weighs about 10 ounces. It will slip into a travel bag easily, and it comes with a USB 3.0 cable with a bundled USB AC adapter for charging. A trio of LEDs on the top panel shows power, Wi-Fi activity, and SD card slot status.
You'll need to download the Toshiba Wireless HDD app to your Android or iOS device, which lets you view the contents of the drive, after you've copied your files to it from your PC or Mac via the USB cable. The app also has a built-in player for videos and music, and you can view photos individually or as a slideshow. A nice feature: The app will keep track of how far you've viewed a video and resume it at that point with such as Toshiba Satellite X200 Ac Adapter , Toshiba G15 Ac Adapter , Toshiba Equium A60 Ac Adapter , Toshiba PA3165U-1ACA Ac Adapter , Toshiba Satellite 1600 Ac Adapter , Toshiba Satellite 200 Ac Adapter , Toshiba Satellite A100 Ac Adapter , Toshiba Tecra L2 Ac Adapter , Toshiba Satellite M20 Ac Adapter , Toshiba Satellite M65 Ac Adapter , Toshiba terca 8000 Ac Adapter , Toshiba Satellite 1900 Ac Adapter . Some of the other wireless drive apps I've tested don't. A document screen will let you open files like PDFs, provided you already have a viewer on your phone or tablet. The app also lets you monitor the battery status, reboot the drive or turn it off remotely, and set up the Internet settings.
When you first set up the Canvio Aerocast, you'll have to decide if you want to connect to the drive directly, or make the drive available on your home network. There are two modes: Station and Bridge. With Bridge mode, which is best to use with public networks, you basically connect the drive to the Internet hotspot, and your device wirelessly to the drive (like on the Editors' Choice winning LaCie Fuel$179.99 at Amazon and the Seagate Wireless Plus$156.00 at Amazon). That way you can just pay or log in one time, and share the Internet connection with your phone and tablets. Essentially, your phone is connected to the Canvio Aerocast, which is in turn connected to the Internet. This is also the mode you'll use if you are out and about, disconnected from the Internet.
In Station mode, the drive is connected to the wireless router. It works best if you have a personal mobile hotpot or are using your home or office LAN. Your phone or tablet then connects to the Canvio Aerocast through the network. The benefit of Station mode is that you can leave the drive in your home office, then access the drive anywhere on your home network. You can also use it to view photos and videos on a Chromecast$29.99 at Amazon. DLNA isn't supported, so you can't access the drive direct from smart TVs.
An SD card slot is something we've seen on one other wireless drive, the Western Digital My Passport Wireless (1TB)Best Price at Amazon. Insert a card, and you can either manually copy files to the Canvio Aerocast using the app, or set it to automatically back up the card when you insert it. Unlike the WD My Passport Wireless, you can't set the Canvio Aerocast to erase the SD card automatically. You'll have to do that on your camera.
Navigating the app was easy when we tested it using an Android-based Acer Iconia One 7$108.06 at Amazon tablet. Thumbnails for the photos and videos came up after a few seconds. Clicking on a thumbnail either loads the full resolution picture, or loads the video into the built-in player, after a bit of time waiting for the file to cache. The most common file formats are covered, including .DOC, JPG, GIF, MP4, M4V, and PDF. Codecs support is also lowest common denominator: MP3; AAC; H.264; MPEG-4; and the like. It's worth noting that some formats like MKV and AVI aren't natively supported in the Toshiba app. You can download RAW photo files to the drive using the SD card slot, but you can't view them in the app on your phone or tablet.
We ran into some trouble while playing and viewing files on an Apple iPad Air$329.99 at Amazon and an iPhone 5s$99.99 at Verizon. Opening files caused the app to crash and kick us out to the home screen. When we tried using an iPad mini 3$389.00 at WalMart, an iPhone 6$199.00 at Verizon, and an iPhone 3GS with less apps installed, the drive worked just like it did on the Acer tablet. It's puzzling because the iPad Air and iPhone 5s are the same devices we used to test the LaCie Fuel and Western Digital My Passport Wireless without any hiccups. This points to a software conflict somewhere.