Corsair Voyager Air 2 1TB Wireless Hard Drive Review

Final Thoughts

Pricing (accurate at the time of writing)

The Corsair Voyager Air 2 1TB wireless hard drive has a list price of $179.99 and £139.99. In the USA it can be had for $179.99 at Newegg and $149.99 at Amazon. In the UK it can be had for £127.45 at Amazon, £129.98 at Overclockers and £124.98 at Scan. This product comes with a 3 year warranty.

Summary

The Corsair Voyager Air 2 is a simple product that does what it says on the tin well. From a consumer perspective the drive is incredibly easy to set up and once you get the Voyager Air Android or iOS app up the device is really easy to manage from your phone. Accessing and downloading or streaming content from the Voyager Air 2 is super easy and can be done on multiple devices at the same time making the device ideal for DLNA streaming of films to multiple TVs or photo sharing when you have lots of guests over. The pricing of the drive is also fairly good, although some rivals are a little cheaper.

Compared to the first Voyager Air the price is a lot less and this is mainly due to the Gigabit Ethernet functionality being ditched. From my testing I’ve found that with the ditching of the ethernet port this device no longer serves a purpose as a portable NAS device, it is too slow when configured as a NAS with WiFi passthru. WiFi passthru is still the most useful mode in my opinion: it allows you to still have internet access to your own WiFi network in addition to having access to the Voyager Air 2 and its files. As a wireless storage device the Voyager Air 2 is great – just don’t expect to be using it with your desktop or notebook PCs like a NAS device, this is mainly geared towards Android/iOS devices with limited storage. I think Corsair should have toyed with the idea of Wireless AC connectivity considering a lot more smartphones and tablets now have this, with only Wireless N the device is going to be fairly limited going forward into the future with large 4K streams. However, given the here and now the device is perfectly capable of anything you might chuck at it.

Pros

• Cheaper than first generation model
• DLNA support
• Easy to set up
• Good App for management and file access
• Good battery life

Cons

• No ethernet, WiFi Passthrough performance is low – NAS capability gone
• Power cable not included – cannot charge with supplied cable unless device is on
• No WiFi AC

” With solid battery life, a great mobile app, competitive pricing and incredibly easy setup and use the Corsair Voyager Air 2 makes an ideal companion to any storage-limited mobile device like a tablet or smartphone.

Thank you to Corsair for providing this review sample.