Wifi Media Hard Drive
FROM YOUR MOBILE DEVICE
- Go to Wi-Fi Settings on your mobile devices to connect to the Drive. (No Internet connection or router is required.)
NOTE: For privacy, you can set a Media Drive Wi-Fi password atADMIN SETTINGS > Admin Login (Admin login password is“admin”) > Change Wi-Fi Settings > Security.
Launch the app and start using your Media Drive!
FROM YOUR COMPUTER
- Go to the Wi-Fi Settings on your computer and connect to the Media Drive's Wi-Fi network (SanDisk Media XXXX)
- Launch your preferred web browser and go to mediadrive.sandisk.com
Having a home NAS for media streaming and backups or a portable external hard drive for spare storage is a great backup plan. And using a wireless NAS is a better storage solution than keeping a bunch of Micro SD Card around that can get lost or damaged. 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. Read Seagate Wireless Plus Review Best. Say you have a nice collection of media on your PC in one room, but you’d like to be able to view it on your nice big TV in another room. Windows offers a simple way to do that over Wi-Fi.
Connecting multiple hard drives together
Wifi Media Players
There are many scenarios where you share one external hard drive among several computers, but not rare are the cases when you need to connect several hard drives together and use them on a single computer. More hard drives, for example, let you save data from being lost as you can back up the information on a second external or internal hard disk. Also, you could store more photos and music if you had additional storage devices connected to your PC.
To install several hard drives on one machine, first, you should decide on the setup you want
Wifi Media Connect
Basically, you have two options:
- Connect several external hard drives to your laptop or desktop computer;
- Install additional internal hard disk on the desktop PC.
When it comes to an external hard drive, it's enough to use a USB or Firewire connection, external hard drives are very simple to install.
As for an internal hard disk, you can set it up as a separate storage device or connect it using the RAID technology. This method requires a motherboard with RAID support and allows using several hard drives together. Also, hard disks can be configured to mirror one another to duplicate and back up data.
Here’s how to install additional hard drive using the RAID utility:
- Before you start, make sure your computer has space for the new installations. Also, it’s recommended that you use identical hard drives that have the same amount of hard disk space and speed. To connect a new hard drive to the motherboard, use connector cables coming with the device.
- Once connected, start your computer. During start-up, there will be shown the keys that need to be pressed in order to launch the RAID program (e.g. “F4”).
- The utility will let you configure your hard drives into one of these hard-drive arrays:
RAID 0: With this configuration, you’ll be able to split data between several hard drives. This set up is referred to as “striping”. In this case, all hard drives can be accessed like it was one large hard drive.
RAID 1: With this configuration, one hard drive will mirror another one so that data can be copied and saved for backup purposes.
- After you’ve finished with the configurations, you should exit the RAID utility and reboot your computer.
- Once done, you can go to the directory and see the newly-installed hard-drive combination. All hard drives will appear as a single large internal hard drive. From that point forward you can copy data and install apps to that drive.