Kingston Wi-Drive Overview
The Kingston Wi-Drive is a very small device. It looks a lot like many of the portable / travel hard drives that we have reviewed in the past except it is much thinner. The actual dimensions are 121.5mm x 61.8mm x 9.8mm so it is smaller than your iPhone so it can easily fit inside your pocket.
If we take a look at the side of the device you can see how thin it is actually. There is a single small power button on the right side of the device. The only connection on this drive is the mini USB connection on the end. This is used to transfer files to the device as well as charge it.
On the top of the drive there is a Kingston logo as well as 2 blue indication LED’s. The back of the drive simply has a sticker on it with the serial number and other information.
Seagate offers a 500GB wireless hard drive solution for the IPAD/IPHONE. It also has an application on the itunes store and operation similarly. Note: the Kingston device is formatted in fat-32… meaning max 4GB files. The Seagate device is formatted in NTFS and Apple devices can read from that format. I like the Kingston drive but Seagate had theirs out last year in the summer. The Seagate device recently had a firmware update that addressed several usage and stability issues.