ADATA DashDrive Air AE400 Review

1. Introduction2. ADATA DashDrive Air AE4003. Using with PC4. Using with iOS & Android5. Phone charging6. Closing Thoughts7. View All Pages

ADATA offer free software for the iPad which can be downloaded directly from the Apple App Store (DashDrive Air Elite). This only takes a couple of seconds. Firstly you need to connect to the AE400 in the settings panel of the iPad.

We are using the iPad 3 today.

When we load the software, the iPad connects to the wireless enabled AE400. The interface is exceptionally easy to use with submenus listed on the left of the interface panel. Sadly you can't swipe across via multiple images, you need to directly access each file from the main interface menu.

Steaming media f rom the AE400 was uneventful and just as smooth as the PC systems. We watched several 1080p Apple files natively and it was very smooth. We tested with two iPad systems and the AE400 was able to stream the same 1080p files to both. Sadly we didn't have three iPad tablets in the offices at the time of the review so we couldn't thoroughly test the ADATA claims. That said, if it could stream a 1080p movie file to three different Windows computers we don't see why it wouldn't work.

The DashDrive Air Elite software is also available for the Android platform, so we wanted to test application stability on our Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet. The application installed in a few seconds. The Android tablet had no problem connecting to the AE400 wireless signal either which was a good initial sign.

The interface is almost identical to the iPad version, as we would expect. Getting access to the settings panel is achieved after keying in ‘admin' and ‘admin' into both user name and password panels of a prompt.

Above, the Android configuration panel, identical to the PC version, available via a browser.

Moving the same 2GB file across to both an iPad and Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 took around 9 and a half minutes.

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