iRecadata i8 External Solid State Drive 256GB, Wireless WiFi Portable SSD, USB3.1 Type-C, WiFi Portable Router, 2250mAh Power Bank

Is the Best

I haven’t had time to check out all of the functions just yet, but my experience with the device and company service deserves a review.Summary:Look and feel: aluminum and glass. Very sturdy and upscale.Gets a bit warm during use, but heat dissipates quickly.Packaging: nicely boxed in a plastic shipping sleeve to protect from scratches, but not storage material. Solid 0.5M USB-C to USB3 (A) cable. Coiled in foam under shipping tray. Took some effort to remove drive from tray. Removed from sleeve, awesome except for the back was cracked. But...Service: I emailed company and they sent me new back within a few days. I just had to send a picture of the crack. My guess, to make sure it wasn’t impact damage. Took some effort to remove. A leather palm work glove and spring steel opening tool recommended, over a trash can or plastic bag to catch the fine shards. Isopropyl wipedown and apply new back. Just like new! I am keeping it in a neoprene hard drive bag I used to use for impact protection with mechanical portable drives. Slightly ironic.Operation: changing of device defaults requires app install. Ex FAT formatted drive can handle storage on a public side and an admin side without formatting, and works with Mac, PC, and Linux. I believe it simply encrypts the data for the admin, and accessing all integrated apps. Drive’s battery charge can be used to charge an aging 1200 mAh phone almost twice in a pinch.Apps: configure up to WPA2 personal encryption for a WiFi connection to access contents of the drive. Takes a moment to show as an available network. Once it’s available, one can use the other apps to back up, import, export, or edit files. The still camera and video pretty much use the phone hardware to take basic video and photos with some basic color tone effects and a flash toggle. The nifty part is that they immediately write to the drive, completely bypassing the built in Camera app and Photo library, so it is highly probable that denying location access to the App disables geotagging. While you may not get super stunning shots with face detection, fstop, exposure time, spot focusing, depth of field, etc., you may flip between the two with relative ease, and this presents some interesting possibilities. You could also sync files across the room with relative ease, and connect to multiple concurrent devices on different OS platforms simultaneously. If the files were already encrypted via PGP, then brush passes and chalk markings make Cold War era movies feel a bit further away.About the only thing that slightly annoys me is that there is a moderate amount of heat generated and no discernible battery indication between 100 and 20%. That, and Faraday cages.I think that is about all I have tested thus far.