I like the idea of using this when traveling in our RV. The ability to load it up with music and movies and connect wirelessly via our onboard Sonos system is what most intrigued me.
From the ashes of the Gnarbox 2.0, this device arises. Im sure it will be incredibly useful for those living on the road either trucking or vanlife or maybe those on deployment. Can't wait to see the ecosystem build out for this thing.
Looks pretty interesting. I'm wondering for the kind of travel use case if a USB hub with an SSD slot might give much of the functionality, for a fraction of the cost. Thank you for another great review!
Yea more portable router features would have been great to see since most of the hardware is already in there. 5g would be cool, but adding software support for USB modems would also be nice(I didn't test USB modems as I dont have one) and wouldn't require hardware changes.
Hey there! Thanks for the awesome video! Let me introduce myself. I'm a travel photographer and I'm on the lookout for a portable backup solution that's not as bulky as lugging around my laptop. I'm not so familiar with NAS, but all I really need is a device that can handle on-the-go backups. I have a few questions as I'm not sure if this NAS is the right fit for me. I simply want to use it as a flash drive to back up the photos from my memory card to a hard disk and then transfer them to my workstation when I'm back home. I'm hoping for a one-click backup solution. 5:12 However, you mentioned that the mobile phone must be connected to the device to use this feature. Does the phone need to be connected all the time to the device while the backup is in process? Also, as a travel photographer, I'm wondering if the device can intelligently detect which photos have already been backed up and only back up new files. Or will it end up duplicating files if I plug in the memory card multiple times?
Also, I'm really hoping that the performance of this device isn't being held back by the slow card reader/writer. Have you had a chance to test the read/write speed of the SD card slot and CF Express card slot? How's the performance looking?
Yea that would be a nice feature if added. I think some other photo features like better handling of raw images previews, an auto cloud upload of low res versions for offsite editors and more could help in this market.
i have two question. 1) how many GB can copy backup with button to ssd before battery is down ? if i have 64GB card with 400MB read card. is possible to backup all card before internal battery is down ? 2) have you XQD Sony card ? if yes can you test it ? thanks
I don't have a XQD card to test unfornatly. I know CFx came from XQD and should be the same physically, but I think some firmware was different. I could backup cards at about 200mB/s so a 64GB card should take about 5 min. I'd guess you could backup 5 ish cards if you add the time it takes to boot up the NAS.
Yea that's a bit annoying of a name, especially since the Ubiquiti has a I and this one has a Y. Ubiquiti is rumored to be releasing a NAS sometime, and that will be interesting to look at.
Yea that would have been convenient to have it powered via POE. I guess a POE to USB C adapter could work, but that kinda gets rid of the all in one box argument.
I like the idea of using this when traveling in our RV. The ability to load it up with music and movies and connect wirelessly via our onboard Sonos system is what most intrigued me.
From the ashes of the Gnarbox 2.0, this device arises.
Im sure it will be incredibly useful for those living on the road either trucking or vanlife or maybe those on deployment.
Can't wait to see the ecosystem build out for this thing.
This is actually a pretty cool device that's definitely in it's own space. I think thinking of it was an external hard drive, but better makes sense.
Great review. Thank you!
Thanks Brandon.
Looks pretty interesting. I'm wondering for the kind of travel use case if a USB hub with an SSD slot might give much of the functionality, for a fraction of the cost. Thank you for another great review!
5g hotspot and some routing features like VPN would be a nice upgrade. Interesting system. Unfortunately the battery life ist to bad.
Yea more portable router features would have been great to see since most of the hardware is already in there. 5g would be cool, but adding software support for USB modems would also be nice(I didn't test USB modems as I dont have one) and wouldn't require hardware changes.
Hey there! Thanks for the awesome video! Let me introduce myself. I'm a travel photographer and I'm on the lookout for a portable backup solution that's not as bulky as lugging around my laptop. I'm not so familiar with NAS, but all I really need is a device that can handle on-the-go backups. I have a few questions as I'm not sure if this NAS is the right fit for me.
I simply want to use it as a flash drive to back up the photos from my memory card to a hard disk and then transfer them to my workstation when I'm back home. I'm hoping for a one-click backup solution. 5:12 However, you mentioned that the mobile phone must be connected to the device to use this feature. Does the phone need to be connected all the time to the device while the backup is in process?
Also, as a travel photographer, I'm wondering if the device can intelligently detect which photos have already been backed up and only back up new files. Or will it end up duplicating files if I plug in the memory card multiple times?
Also, I'm really hoping that the performance of this device isn't being held back by the slow card reader/writer. Have you had a chance to test the read/write speed of the SD card slot and CF Express card slot? How's the performance looking?
tbh this would be much more useful if you could tether a camera directly to it, that way you wouldn't have to worry about SD cards in general.
Yea that would be a nice feature if added. I think some other photo features like better handling of raw images previews, an auto cloud upload of low res versions for offsite editors and more could help in this market.
i have two question.
1) how many GB can copy backup with button to ssd before battery is down ? if i have 64GB card with 400MB read card. is possible to backup all card before internal battery is down ?
2) have you XQD Sony card ? if yes can you test it ?
thanks
I don't have a XQD card to test unfornatly. I know CFx came from XQD and should be the same physically, but I think some firmware was different.
I could backup cards at about 200mB/s so a 64GB card should take about 5 min. I'd guess you could backup 5 ish cards if you add the time it takes to boot up the NAS.
@@ElectronicsWizardry thks you.
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ah wait! I actually thought it was from Unifi but it's "Unify" haha
Yea that's a bit annoying of a name, especially since the Ubiquiti has a I and this one has a Y. Ubiquiti is rumored to be releasing a NAS sometime, and that will be interesting to look at.
I was interested until I saw the pricing. That killed it dead.
PoE.
Yea that would have been convenient to have it powered via POE. I guess a POE to USB C adapter could work, but that kinda gets rid of the all in one box argument.
@@ElectronicsWizardry right. I have several adapters like this. But still…