Need a little more wiggle room for media on your iPad? Want to share a movie to your girlfriend on her iPhone while you simultaneously watch the same movie on your iPad in the other room? Kingston’s Wi-Drive has you covered, but some serious drawbacks make this a hard recommendation to make.
Like the Seagate GoFlex Satellite, the Wi-Drive is an external drive that allows you to upgrade your iPhone or iPad’s internal storage with an external, WiFi equipped drive.
When we originally wrote about the GoFlex Satellite, we complained about its price: $200 for 500GB of space. We’re rethinking our frugality, though, because the Wi-Drive costs $130 for just 16GB of SSD storage, or $175 for 32GB.
What the Wi-Drive has as an advantage over the GoFlex Satellite is it can stream multiple files to multiple connected iOS devices at the same time. That’s a nice perk, made possible by Kingston’s decision to use an SSD instead of a spinning physical drive, but how often are you really going to use that functionality?
Otherwise, the feature set looks good: the Wi-Drive can stream 720p video, music and other media to your devices through a dedicated iOS app. It’s hard to look at that price, though, and want to add this to your next Apple store shopping list.
