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Hands On With The Transporter At Macworld
Mar 11, 2025
Erfon takes a look at the Transporter, a personal storage device that lets you privately share files between friends and family from anywhere in the world.
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hey guys a Elijah Gadget Hunter here
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with culac at Mac 2013 I uh stumbled
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across the transporter booth and uh the
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transporter is a cool little device that
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helps you create your own personal cloud
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storage Network did I say that correctly
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Tony pretty close pretty close and the
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guys who created the drobo actually the
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guy who started drobo you know that neat
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little device that lets you create raids
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and all sorts of different Siz hard
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drive started this company they did a
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Kickstarter project asked for 100 grand
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got about 260 right so the people want
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it I'm going to let Tony tell you a
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little bit more about what this device
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does and what makes it so special try to
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follow us here this is new technology so
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it's easy to get lost yeah sure so
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thanks thanks very much so the way the
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product was uh was originally conceived
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was our founder Jeff Jeff barl and our
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current our coo uh Jeff was based in San
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Diego at the time um and our coo was in
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San Francisco and what je wanted to do
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was actually move some movies around
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about 100 gab of movies um and they
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found there was no easy way to do it you
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could use Dropbox but it was going to be
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really really expensive to do 100 Gig of
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of uh data and our coo is cloudophobia
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he just doesn't like to put his data
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anywhere else and routin control of the
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data so they they thought there must be
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an easier way to do this so lo and
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behold they came up with the concepts of
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Transporter and what what transporter is
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is the world's first online but offcloud
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personal storage device that allows you
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to share collaborate uh and back up your
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folders with anybody you want anywhere
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in the world um but without storing any
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data in the cloud all we do all we do is
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enable a peer-to beer communication
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between you and the person you want to
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share with or between you and someone
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else's transporter if you want to retain
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two cop more than one copy of the
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data go ahead I was going to say so he
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explained this to me earlier so it also
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lets you allow allows you to do some
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cool things so share files easily with
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people
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let's say you have some a movie you want
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to share with your M as you would say
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and it makes it easy to do that and then
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also allows you to access your data from
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anywhere in the world right correct so
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I'm I'm a living breathing example I I
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live here in the Bay Area my parents
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live in England I've given them access
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to my Transporters so that they can
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actually access my my ioto library and
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see the photos I'm actually going to
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send them a transporter as well um what
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that will give me is a full offsite
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backup once they've plugged it in
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they've got it up and running um they
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will accept the invitation from me and
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it will copy and replicate real time my
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ioto library 5,000 m away so if I've got
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you know my house burns down someone
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someone burgles my house I've got my
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iPhoto Lobby that's what I care about
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but it works very very powerful for any
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sharing collaboration wherever you are
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in the world if I'm work if I'm on a
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plane I'm working on a document I land
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anywhere in the world I connect to the
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internet I've immediately got access to
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my transporter and the data on it and
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it's cashed on my hard driver as well so
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I've I've got a real time backup
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wherever I am but I've got access
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anywhere in the world one more important
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note too you probably couldn't tell this
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by looking at the transporter but it
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houses a hard drive correct can be sold
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with or without a hard drive or if you
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have a 2.5 in hard drive laying around
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somewhere I have like five you just plug
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that guy in and it will immediately
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start storing data on that hard drive
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right absolutely it'll format itself to
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the hard drive um and Away you go you're
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up and running um the other beauty is if
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say you know the hard drive goes down or
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somebody steals your hard drive it
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actually only work in that device and
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it's only it's only works with you and
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your password and your your user details
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interesting so we're definitely going to
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be trying to review one of these for
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culac see how it works and uh if people
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wanted to buy this uh where can they get
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it and how much does it cost they can go
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to our online store we're up and running
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now um we've got also got a list of
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Partners on there Amazon Newegg PC M Etc
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so you can come there um the Z terab is
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$199 um we selling it with one and 2
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terab 1 terab $299 2 tab 3.99 there you
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have it some cool technology from maw
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World 2013 I'm a from Elijah Gadget
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Hunter thanks so much you
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