Additionally, as a router it can also be an access point and a wireless bridge giving more options to how you can connect to your network. The router is pretty fast boasting AC Wi-Fi up to 433 Mbps. You can walk up to any modem and plug the Ravpower FileHub into the modem and browse the internet. The Ravpower FileHub is more than just a wireless bridge for hard drives, it is also a router. This makes the FileHub a valuable device for photographers and videographers who need to backup their sd card in the field. This means I will need to pack an extra cable with me.Ī nice feature of the FileHub is the button that lets one copy over all the contents of the sd card to a connected external hard drive. The previous model had a usb-c port for charging but for some strange reason Ravpower decided to downgrade to a micro usb port. The FileHub has four ports to it a ethernet jack, usb A to connect external hard drives, an sd card reader, and the unfortunate micro usb port for charging the FileHub. Yes, the iPad converts all images coming off the iPad into jpg which means if I want to backup any RAWs to my cloud account, the files get uploaded as jpgs. The problem with reading the sd card through my iPad is I can transfer all the jpg and RAW files onto the iPad but from there they are stuck, and if I try to transfer a RAW file the iPad will convert it into a jpeg before it copies it to something like cloud storage. Why do you need this workaround? Well, the iPad doesn’t let you access external hard drives and in my case the only way to read my sd card is through a dongle. This can turn any hard drive into a wireless hard drive, and more importantly into a hard drive the iPad can read and write to. The FileHub main purpose is to be able to connect an sd card or a usb hard drive and then connect to the FileHub through the iPad and access all the content on the external storage devices. The FileHub is not a wireless hard drive like the GNARBOX 2.0 or My Passport Wireless Pro, but instead just a wireless bridge/router.
This is where the Ravpower FileHub comes in.