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the Corsair Voyager air is more than your average hard drive but does that justify its somewhat I price find out in our review hey everybody I'm Chris look right now smartphones usually top out at about 64 gigs even if you double that with a microSD card that's not a ton of space if you want to keep a lot of music movies and photos on hand not to mention apps and games the Voyager air can help solve that problem but how well does it work the Voyager air comes in two capacities 500 gigabytes and one terabyte which we're reviewing and it connects via backwards compatible USB 3.0 it has a built in 6200 milliamp hour battery it allows you to use it without having to be plugged in the Voyager error measures roughly five and a half inches long by three inches wide there's about one inch thick it's roughly the size of an old mp3 player and it fit easily in my pocket the power and Wi-Fi switches are on the front while the USB power and land connections are all placed on the back while you can connect the Voyager air with just one cable for data transfer using the second cable in a second port charges the device's built-in battery while you use it while you can plug it into a computer via USB or use it as a network attached storage device if you connect it to a router to use the Voyager air with your Android device you'll want to enable the built-in Wi-Fi just turn the drive on turn on Wi-Fi and connect as you would to any other Wi-Fi network with your phone or tablet once you're connected you can use the Voyager air a p-- available on the Google Play Store to manage settings and files one of the coolest things about the Voyager air is its built-in Wi-Fi pass through basically the Voyager air connects to another wireless network and acts as a bridge between your device and the other network meaning you can still access the Internet but this has other uses think hotel rooms that charge per device simply connect the Voyager air to the hotel Wi-Fi and connect all your other devices through the Voyager air there you go the corsair claims that the Voyager air 6200 our battery allows streaming video for up to seven hours I didn't test this specifically but I did get quite a bit of battery life out of the air you can always check the battery capacity through the voyager an app if you want to keep an eye on how long the battery has left I connected the Voyager heir to a bunch of different Android devices as well as computers running Windows 8 Mac OS 10 mountain lion and a few different Linux distributions and it worked great with all of them the only one I had a little trouble with was mountain lion because the drive is formatted as NTFS so I couldn't write to it right out of the box but it does give you the option to format it as HFS+ if you want to use it with time machine now the Voyager err is on the pricey side right now it goes for about $200 online depending on where you look but if you travel a lot or if you just use a lot of media with your phone I'd say it's definitely worth it this is a really cool little gadget we've got a written companion to this video at Android authority comm you can find a link in the description make sure to stay tuned to android authority for more reviews news QA giveaways and more I'm Chris book and as always thanks for watching