SanDisk announces two portable, flash-based multimedia Wi-Fi drives

SanDisk announced two portable, flash-based multimedia Wi-Fi drives on Monday, and one is the

Connect Wireless Media Drive

, the other is the

Connect Wireless Flash Drive

. Both the drives have battery-power. They can used as a portable storage and serve as mobile multimedia hotspots, so you can share data and multimedia wirelessly via 802.11 b/g/n.

The smaller Connect Wireless Flash uses a USB port as its connection port. It looks like a USB mass storage device. The price is $50 for 16GB and $60 for 32GB. But it is misleading of the storage function—it is not the USB flash drives but a form of a micro SD card hidden in a slot on the side of the device. It doesn’t support a 64GB micro SD card however.

The Wireless Media Drive is 0.5-inch thick, approximately 2.5×2.5 inch of the size. It sells at $80 with 32GB or $100 with 64GB. It has a micro USB port and SDHC/XC slot and is more powerful. It can deliver five 720p video streams simultaneously and 8 hours of battery life, when the Connect Wireless Flash can deliver three 720p streams and 4 hours of battery life. It’s a pity that both drives support USB 2.0, not 3.0.

SanDisk announces two portable, flash-based multimedia Wi-Fi drives