Best part is all my devices including Amazon Fire are able to access the files on my usb portable hard drives.

Security is the main reason for the rating: None of the HooToo units support any type of software or OS based hard drive encryption, including offering their own encryption option.

This means you can plug in flash drives, a Portable Hard Drive, etc and transfer files back and forth or stream media

Have actually tested the ability to access my external hard drive and it went flawlessly after connecting to the device

I found that the latest firmware release (2.000.042) includes ExFAT and my hard drive (formatted in ExFAT

Which it sort of provides; however, at the cost of adding bulky external intermediate devices like USB hub to support multiple flash/usb cards/drives.

The thick design takes up too much space in traveling computer case where I have several other accessories such as power cords, external hard drives, etc

I simply plug in my flash drive (or any usb connected storage, such as my huge external hard drive) and instantly they can watch their movies wirelessly on their devices.

I'm going with my family to a trip to other states and i'll load my movie library in my portable hard drive and use it in the trip

We use a 1TB hard drive and USB drives/readers.

I use it to power a 2tb usb hard drive and share the files

If they had just told me to begin with that this wouldn't support the hard drive

and now I'm getting a western digital wi-fi hard drive that has an SD card slot right on it, and built in batteries as well

Bought this so we could watch movies we have stored on a portable hard drive while on vacation and was surprised at how long it stayed charged and powered the drive

For big downloads to the hard drive, or backups to a separate

A big plus that it is able to read 4tb portable hard drive.

I bought two of these for three functions - as a mobile access point when at a campground in the RV, as a means of copying camera files from a USB card reader to a hard drive using a phone and to generate a small IP system for software that needs a network present

But on the bright side, external hard drives are very inexpensive per GB compared to SD cards, so this system works great for me

Now I am able to keep my images backed up on my hard drive each night on a photo trip without having to lug my laptop around

This newer model works just as well only for much longer and can power an external hard drive

4 TB hard drive plugs right in and streams what ever you want

I connected my 500GB external hard drive to it and now my wife can download her Iphone pictures to it and still have access to them when she is at home

Liked being able to use the updated tripmate app to transfer photos and videos to my hard drive, no need for a computer

In this day and age, and in deference to all of the other reviewers who present themselves as "road warriors", it's unfathomable to leave the relative security of a home or office with an unencrypted hard drive.

I shared my desire to be able to transfer files from both CF and SD cards to a USB hard drive in one step and they got to work

I bought this for use in an RV to turn a 4TB (the maximum size that the instructions say is usable with the TripMate) portable hard drive into a NAS for storing video, music, photos and documents, so the below comments center on this function.

To us, any unencrypted hard drive is unacceptable for home or work.

If you have a fat USB drive, it will block the charging cable as the ports are right next to each other with no extra clearance.

: I can play all of the videos on my portable hard drive through my phone or tablet

I use many USB sticks, many SD cards, and many external hard drives

I received this and put it to use immediately for the purpose of transferring files from my WD External Hard Drive to my phone.

Linked both (iPhone and Android) phones, can backup, transfer and/or stream from and to my hard drives. was able to connect to one 5tb WD, and that was way more than I expected

After I downloaded the app to manage the device and access the hard drive, I plugged my hard drive directly into the Tripmate, then connected directly to the Tripmate via a wireless connection (the unit acts as a wireless router), and am able to open all of the files from my hard drive on my ipad and iphone 5S. Pretty slick setup for sure.

I have attached a portable hard drive to the unit's USB port, and am able to use this as a NAS, which I have then shared to all the devices in my home, and have even set it up to be able to connect remotely

Hook up a portable hard drive and all 4 of my kids were able to connect and stream movies wirelessly during our 12 hour road trip.

Has support for the CCMP wifi encryption standardReal world use:So I have used both devices with my external WD portable drives

I can't wait to use this for a hard drive companion too

From charging my products, to use as a Wi-Fi modem, to streaming movies from a hard-drive to Ipads in the car, this is an awesome product.

I bought this Tripmate for two reasons: 1) attached an external hard drive and have kids stream videos using the Tripmate app on their Kindles during our road trip.

So I spent the $40, picked up an Aukey USB 3.0 to SATA adapter AUKEY USB 3.0 to SATA Adapter, Hard Drive Converter Cable for 2.5" SSD, HDD (2 Pack) to connect an old 256GB SSD to it and waited patiently for 36 hours until it arrived at my door

No matter how you organize your media on the hard or flash drive, the mobile app will display a long list of files

One suggestion if you are going to use it like us...install all your movies on a large USB flash drive, or solid state drive

Good:- Battery charger can charge two phones before dying.- Device is built well, feels solid.- Supports use of key drives and external portable Hard Drives (Seagate 2TB hard drives were tested, as well as a variety of key drives from multiple vendors)Bad:- Can't update firmware.- App requires too many permissions.- Wireless configuration requires knowing the handshake (TKIP or AES) of a wireless network before connecting to it.- admin password doesn't accept passwords with special characters

” the one cruise rip off WiFi you paid for ONE DEVICE... and share the connection to the whole family!It can also share the content of whatever usb drive (in our case a 2 TB portable hardrive powered by the hootoo also) and streaming videos from the hard drive while 4 other devices are using the net!It is very powerful and truly worth every single penny of it!

They sent me this HooToo Wireless Hard Drive Companion (TM05) for evaluation

I connected the HooToo router with three external hard drives (all 500 gb) and works perfectly but suddenly one of them crashed

Good:- Battery charger can charge two phones before dying.- Device is built well, feels solid.- Supports use of key drives and external portable Hard Drives (Seagate 2TB hard drives were tested, as well as a variety of key drives from multiple vendors)Bad:- Can't update firmware.- App requires too many permissions.- Wireless configuration requires knowing the handshake (TKIP or AES) of a wireless network before connecting to it.- admin password doesn't accept passwords with special characters

Just plug a flash drive or external hard drive into this and your children can stream video from the tripmate titan to their android and iOS devices

I have connected an external hard drive to access files, and while it works, it can be a little unreliable.

You can attach a hub and play off of or transfer to and from multiple USB hard drives or flash drives

I have attached a portable hard drive to the unit's USB port, and am able to use this as a NAS, which I have then shared to all the devices in my home, and have even set it up to be able to connect remotely

This means if you have mac formatted external hard drives or flash drives they will not be seen by the Tripmate

The only way I could get photos from my CF cards to the USB hard drive was to transfer them to an SD card first and then transfer them to the USB hard drive in a second step

My intention was to plug in my 1TB portable drive to this device and stream it to various devices.

In our testing, both hard drives and USB keys with onboard 256 AES encryption from Seagate (biometric) and Apricorn (keypad) did test successfully

: I can play all of the videos on my portable hard drive through my phone or tablet

I can't even transfer a file to a hard drive as a back up

Given the encryption concerns, our assumption is that James Bond would be better served just stealing your hard drive than loading malware on your $40 router

I am typing this message in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean... while both of my kids are watching Netflix and my husband is watching all the stuff in the hard drive while my kid is also downloading in another tablet

I bought this for use in an RV to turn a 4TB (the maximum size that the instructions say is usable with the TripMate) portable hard drive into a NAS for storing video, music, photos and documents, so the below comments center on this function.

This will allow me to dump vacation photos on a USB hard drive without a computer.

I connected the USB hub with 1x64GB SD card (rated at 95 MB/s), 1x128GB USB flash drive and 1x640GB USB hard drive (with no separate power supply).

While playing different mp4 movies off of my USB hard drive, I noticed that some movies will have sound and others didn't, but they played sound just fine for all the other units I tested and even my computer, then I decided to open my browser and access the Tripmate via the browser, which pretty much has the same look and feel

from a usb attached hard drive is not straight forward either

I bought this so I could transfer files from my Gopro's microSD cards to a hard drive while on a trip without the need to bring a laptop

When I hooked it up to my existing USB hub, it would recognize either the USB hard drive or the SD/CF card reader, but not both

But on the bright side, external hard drives are very inexpensive per GB compared to SD cards, so this system works great for me

A big plus that it is able to read 4tb portable hard drive.

Bought this so we could watch movies we have stored on a portable hard drive while on vacation and was surprised at how long it stayed charged and powered the drive

No issues using my external hard drive to play movies to my tablet while traveling.

That version worked perfectly for sharing videos from an attached USB hard drive to tablets for our children on load car rides

You must download the firmware from their website to a compatible drive

I ran a 3.5" USB 2.0 portable drive off of the HooToo for a little over 6 hours testing WiFi movie streaming before it didn't have enough power to run the drive anymore, wireless was still working

I used its sharing feature to transfer all of my files from my cell phone to my external hard drive

GREAT!!I am now able to plug both my SD/CF card reader and my 1TB USB hard drive into the hub and attach the hub to the HooToo TM05

The only thing i noticed was that if the flash drive that you plug in is not a very high speed rated , when you try to play videos/movies stored on your usb drive your video is going to get choppy at the point that stops every seconds/minute that i stopped watching and returned the usb drive to the store, i tried the same movie but this time with a regular portable drive and no problem at all.

Would not support connection of my Android tablet to my Seagate 1tb external hard drive.

I'm going with my family to a trip to other states and i'll load my movie library in my portable hard drive and use it in the trip

I connected my hard drive,went to the tripmat app and it streamed flawlessly.

Made an excellent solution for photographers shooting on SD cards to be able to transfer their photos from SD to a USB hard drive when traveling without a laptop

(I didn't plug in a hard drive or charge any devices with it, so this was just for the WiFi

Use it to stream movies from my USB hard drive.

If the hard drive is not externally powered it will go to sleep after a couple hours and the only way to wake it back up is to unplug and plug it back in

This review is for the Tripmate Titan or "HooToo Wireless Travel Router, Hard Drive Companion

Excellent for getting network drives onto your home WIFI.

Lots of spare battery storage and will power a portable drive for hours

I haven't had the opportunity yet, but the Titan will be great on a family road trip or flight by connecting an external hard drive and let everyone pick and choose what they want to watch or listen to whether it be alone or all together

This means you can plug in flash drives, a Portable Hard Drive, etc and transfer files back and forth or stream media

Best part is all my devices including Amazon Fire are able to access the files on my usb portable hard drives.

The Tripmate Sith paired easily with my iOS and Android devices and I was able to view old videos from my ext hard drive via their dedicated app.

I started playing with the feature of storage to a hard drive, and the little bit I did worked, even without the extra software, but is not straight-

Hook up a portable hard drive and all 4 of my kids were able to connect and stream movies wirelessly during our 12 hour road trip.

So far this little guy has worked great, except it seems to be a bit spotty when transferring files from an SD card on a card reader to a hard drive or flash drive when connected on a USB hub (which is a great capability that I'm really glad HooToo added to this device, I just wish it worked a little better).

If, like me, you use it as a NAS there is nothing protecting the data on the hard drive from upstream intrusion except the password you pick for HTTP and Microsoft File Sharing access, so get serious about your password.

Share movies and music off of a portable hard drive, with other members of the vacationing group

External hard drives that use spinning discs have a hard time keeping up with the demand of multiple users

I have movies and music loaded onto a 2Tb portable drive and everyone in the car can access anything they like on road trips without having to load each person's media into their devices before we leave the house

Range isn't as good as a real home router, but from speed to the advantage of using it as a cloud-based router with external hard drives, I'm hard pressed to find anything to rival it in the current market.

I downloaded the HooToo App, and unless I am doing it wrong, it does not allow for easy transfer from the Iphone to the hard drive connected to it.

My hope was to use the device and the corresponding iOS app, along with an SD card reader and several USB drives, to transfer my photos from my SD cards to my hard drives each evening.

I used a portable hard drive to stream movies to 3 apple devices.

By using my iPhone, I can directly transfer all my photos from the card reader to the hard drive

You can also use this device as a NAS on your home network for media storage by connecting a thumb drive or multiple thumb drives or even a external hard drive

In further testing, hard drives that offer onboard hardware encryption on the hard drive itself, such as a keypad or biometric were successfully used.

That was my main focus of this device for my needs and it outshine all the rest, second was the capability of backing up my wife's iPhone 5s and it also worked great and fast at transferring even the long movies over to a portable hard drive, also has the biggest battery of all the models I tried, 10,400 mAh

If you have a USB hard drive hooked up to it, you won't be able to stream movies from the USB device to your phone if it's over 4 mbps.

Attached a hard drive and memory card reader to it using a hub.

Thus it allows anybody on my LAN to access the hard drive

I had only one problem; Not one of my external hard drives worked with it

However, correspondingly allow considerable time to recharge the unit from zero to full!!The TM05 has the capability to handle NAS devices (flash drives, hard drives, etc.); an extremely small percentage of users have reported corruption of devices.

Excellent peace of Technology!.The device works as a portable charger and a file sharing hub which supports even external hard drives

The USB input can be used to either charge a device or to output to a USB flash drive or a USB hard drive

we use this and a portable external hard drive to stream movies to our tablets.

Now that this can read all my camera SD cards, I can back them up in the field to a pair of portable 2TB hard drives... never trust an important backup to just one drive, all mechanical hard drives only have one absolute guarantee

To keep the unit portable during travel we picked up a cheap low-profile USB drive and loaded it up with Spencer’s favorite movies

Now that this can read all my camera SD cards, I can back them up in the field to a pair of portable 2TB hard drives... never trust an important backup to just one drive, all mechanical hard drives only have one absolute guarantee

we use this and a portable external hard drive to stream movies to our tablets.

I'm a student using this at my school to set up a LAN with WiFi access so that people can more easily connect to the external hard-drive that we store a lot of important information on

Now it can see my slim drive, which is exfat!Works extremely well with my

It's not a hard drive so can't comment like others on the powered bit, but I tested it out on my

Excellent peace of Technology!.The device works as a portable charger and a file sharing hub which supports even external hard drives

The unit has an input/output USB port, which supports up to 4TB drives

I also used this to copy photos from SD cards to a hard drive, I just connect a small powered USB 3.0 hub to the HooToo and plugged in my external hard drive and card reader, using the TripMate app I could copy files over

The Sith supports multiple drives though, which may be a premium feature you are willing to pay for

I still haven't tried using the USB port to share a hard drive with it, but I have done that with another HooToo device and that worked flawlessly.

I bought this to use for viewing, accessing and transferring files from memory cards to a USB hard drive using iPad or an android phone in the field.

We have tons of kids movies on an external hard drive and now they each can pick and choose for those long trips

That was my main focus of this device for my needs and it outshine all the rest, second was the capability of backing up my wife's iPhone 5s and it also worked great and fast at transferring even the long movies over to a portable hard drive, also has the biggest battery of all the models I tried, 10,400 mAh

(the TripMate comes with no AC charging plug) would not run the TripMate and have enough juice left over to run the hard drive, and I even bought a powered USB hub in case it didn't.

I have not had this issue with USB 3.0 hard drives

I can upload files to a hard drive connected via USB to my HooToo, but getting the files off the drive is more challenging without the app on my

I used a portable hard drive to stream movies to 3 apple devices.

Share movies and music off of a portable hard drive, with other members of the vacationing group

GB from the SD card to the hard drive in 1.5 minutes.

You can also access files on any USB device like a hard drive or USB stick if you connect it to the router, and you can even transfer files to or from the USB device

Great for playing movies from a connected USB flash drive to an iPad