With the rapid development of information technology, storage is becoming more and more important to us. We have put forward higher requirements for storage space and speed. Mobile hard disks provide us with massive storage space, but they can also make us more portable. However, we all know that traditional mobile hard disks can only be used for desktop PCs or notebooks. With the advent of the mobile Internet era, We are increasingly using mobile devices such as mobile phones in our life and work, and these mobile devices inevitably have problems such as limited storage space and short battery life. So how can we create a storage product suitable for mobile devices such as mobile phones? ORICO mobile magic disk gives the best answer. It should be noted that ORICO mobile magic disk is currently in the engineering sample stage, and the author's evaluation is only conducted for engineering samples, which does not represent the final product quality.

1、 Appearance display

Since the ORICO mobile magic disk obtained by the author is still in the engineering sample stage, the packaging box is very simple.

Although it is an engineering sample, in addition to the formal instructions, other accessories are quite complete, including Type-C data cable, Type-C to RJ45 network port, TF card to SD card sleeve and internal test instructions.

As far as we know, the ORICO mobile magic disk should have two styles: dazzling black and silver white. The author's model is silver white. The overall appearance of the ORICO mobile magic disk is like a 2.5 inch mobile hard disk box, but it is a circle larger, heavier and thicker than the mobile hard disk box, but its function is much stronger than the mobile hard disk box. Both the upper and lower sides are made of high gloss piano baking paint, with round surface and delicate hand feel.

The interfaces of ORICO mobile magic disk are mainly concentrated on one side of the disk body, which are in turn pinhole reset key, USB interface (which can be used to connect USB storage or provide 5V2A output power supply), two USB3.1 interfaces (respectively used for charging, data transmission and RJ45 network port, with a speed of 10/100Mbps adaptive) and power key.

There is an SD card slot on the other side of the disc body. It is worth mentioning that after starting up, the SD card slot will emit a green light, full of science and technology.

One side of the panel body is equipped with two LED indicators: power and WiFi. After briefly pressing the power key to start the machine, the power indicator will light up, showing green when the power is sufficient, blue when the power is medium, and red warning when the power is low. The WiFi indicator will always light up when the computer is connected, red when reading and writing data will flash, red and blue when long pressing for 3 seconds to start WIFI, and blue when reading and writing WIFI.

The middle of the disk body is an aluminum alloy metal middle frame, which has a strong metal texture and can better protect the built-in hard disk.

The installation of the hard disk cage is tool free, and the back cover can be removed by downward force.

The inner bin only supports the 7mm 2.5-inch SATA interface hard disk, and most of today's SSDs can meet this requirement. For the early SSDs and 2.5-inch mechanical hard disks, this requirement is somewhat high, because the thickness of the standard 2.5-inch hard disk is 9.5mm, and the Intel 330 SSDs cannot be installed. On the contrary, However, my HGST 2.5-inch mechanical hard disk meets the thickness requirements. For better compatibility, I think I really don't care about the 2.5mm thickness. It is gratifying that ORICO mobile magic disk is expected to launch a version supporting 9.5mm hard disk in the future. Support for hard disk installation is a major feature of ORICO mobile magic disk. Although there are some similar products with USB extended portable routing on the market, those that support hard disk installation have never been heard of.

2、 Functional experience

After the ORICO Magic Cloud APP is installed on the mobile phone, the ORICO mobile magic disk can be managed through the mobile phone, which supports two management methods: local login and remote login. Local login means that after the WiFi of the mobile magic disk is turned on, you can connect the mobile phone to the WiFi beginning with ORICO_Magibox, and the initial password is 123456789. After the connection, you can manage it through the mobile phone APP. Remote login means that you can log in with Orico account after you register it. You can also manage it when the ORICO mobile magic disk is not around. The premise is to ensure that the ORICO mobile magic disk is turned on and connected to the Internet.

1. Portable NAS/private cloud

In terms of extended storage, ORICO mobile magic disk supports the connection of hard disk, U disk, SD or TF memory card, and also supports multi partition. Through mobile APP, you can directly manage the files in each storage device, create a private cloud, and realize the functions of simple NAS, such as sharing photos in storage with family members, and playing videos in storage. The performance is relatively stable in the use process. Even if there are many files and folders, the file list in the APP still loads quickly, and there is no jam when playing high-definition video.

It supports downloading the stored files to the mobile phone, and also supports uploading the files from the mobile phone to the storage, so as to achieve the purpose of mobile phone file backup and storage wireless expansion.

The ORICO home page is mainly the ORICO official website, forum, Tmall flagship store and other links. It has the nature of advertising. At present, there is not much substantive content, so the author will ignore this. The toolbox page has the function of backup and setting. Album backup and address book backup are more practical. It supports setting the path of the album, but does not know where the album backup and address book backup are located. I hope this can be improved to allow users to configure by themselves in the future.

The default SSID and password of ORICO mobile magic disk can be modified in WiFi settings. The Internet connection of ORICO mobile magic disk can be set in networking settings. The magic disk supports wired network (via RJ45 adapter) and wireless network (WiFi Relay) The two ways to access the Internet may be because the APP in the project sample stage is not perfect enough. At present, the wireless network cannot be used to connect to the Internet, so the author can only connect through the wired network.

2. Wireless routing

The ORICO mobile magic disk has the function of a router, with a bandwidth of 300Mbps. Multiple devices can be connected to the ORICO mobile magic disk through WiFi. These devices can be managed in the connected device management, and support blacking, speed limiting and other operations. In terms of wireless performance, a fixed-point test was carried out at a distance of 10m from the magic disk. The WiFi signal was between - 70 and - 60 dBm, and the WiFi stability was above good. In terms of network speed, the author measured that the download speed under the ORICO mobile magic disk WiFi was about 50Mbps and the upload speed was about 10Mbps in the wired network environment with a bandwidth of 100Mbps. It can be said that the wireless performance of Magic Disk has exceeded the positioning of its portable products.

3. Mobile hard disk

Although ORICO mobile magic disk mainly focuses on wireless storage, it also supports wired mode, so it can be used like an ordinary mobile hard disk. The interface used by the magic disk is USB 3.1 Gen 1, and the bandwidth can reach 5Gbps, which can meet the upper speed limit of most SSDs without causing performance bottlenecks. Since the 7200 rpm mechanical hard disk is installed by the author, the measured read/write speeds are 37.8MB/s and 35.7MB/s respectively, the bottleneck is obviously the performance of the hard disk itself.

4. Mobile power supply

The internal battery capacity of ORICO mobile magic disk is 8000mAh, which can supply power to the internal hard disk, and can also be used as a mobile power supply for external power supply. USB interface is used for power supply, which can provide 5V2A power output.

5. Samba sharing/FTP

The ORICO mobile magic disk has Samba sharing enabled by default, so you can access the contents of the magic disk through the Samba protocol, such as the ES file manager or the Xiaobai file manager to manage the files in the magic disk.

In addition to control through APP, high-end players can also use mobile phones connected to ORICO mobile magic disk WiFi to access //192.168.10.1 Enter the web management page of magic disk. The default password is also 123456789. Here, you can make more advanced settings for magic disk, including connection device management FTP、DMZ、 Port mapping, etc.

3、 Applicable scenarios

At first glance, the ORICO mobile magic disk seems to have many functions, which can easily dazzle people. But in fact, these functions complement each other. The ORICO mobile magic disk is intended to create a storage product suitable for the mobile Internet era. It can be seen that the three functions of wireless AP, mobile power supply and storage must be unified. Users do not need to care about how to use which function when using it, which is a matter of course. Now I will analyze the actual application scenarios of ORICO mobile magic disk.

In our daily travel, such as on the bus and subway, we can put the ORICO mobile magic disk in the bag, and the mobile phone can directly play the video in the magic disk through the WiFi connected to the magic disk, which is convenient for users to use the fragmented time to pursue the drama, thus solving the problem of insufficient storage space for mobile phones. Even the flagship mobile phone with 128GB storage, excluding the space occupied by the system and various applications, I'm afraid I can't save many TV dramas and several high-definition movies. This reveals the fact that I have been chasing the TV play "Cloud of Xuanyuan Swordsman" recently. It is really good looking and conscientious. I strongly recommend it to players who like the game of Xuanyuan Swordsman. Don't miss it.

When traveling or traveling, you can use the wireless routing function of ORICO Mobile Magic Disk to convert the RJ45 wired network interface in the hotel to WiFi, which can support 8-10 people to use at the same time. Due to the power consumption and performance of the hard disk, 2-3 people can watch the video in the Magic Disk at the same time, and can also share photos during the travel. At the same time, the unified data storage is convenient for later collection and sorting. The battery life is about 10 hours under full power, which can basically meet the needs of ordinary users.

The backup of mobile phone photo albums and contacts, to a certain extent, expands the storage space of mobile phones.

If you are a photography enthusiast, you can use the data companion function to back up the contents of the SD card to the magic disk, or you can back up the external USB drive data to the mobile magic disk.

The ORICO mobile magic disk can be used to charge other devices in any environment where necessary.

In the process of office and home use, ORICO mobile magic disk is used as an ordinary mobile hard disk for data transmission.

Conclusion: ORICO Mobile Magic Disk is a portable NAS product that can easily create a media center for users. It can be described as a mobile hard disk in the era of mobile Internet. In the new era of mobile Internet, this product with multiple functions is very popular. Users can use various functions of ORICO Mobile Magic Disk anytime and anywhere. As mentioned above, the ORICO mobile magic disk is still in the engineering sample stage, and there are still some problems with the functions such as wireless relay and setting backup album path. After subsequent adjustment and improvement, we believe that the official product will bring more surprises to everyone.

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