 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Gauntlet Node from Patriot. This is a cameraman, okay, cameraman insists that I tell you guys that he did not understand what this product did based on the packaging and I sort of actually see his point. So it streams wireless, music, videos and pictures, tablet friendly up to 2 terabyte, drive not included, Google Play available on the App Store, unless until you get down to sort of the finer sort of details here, up to 8 simultaneous mobile devices, tablet friendly up to 2 terabyte hard drive, drive not included, okay these are all the same things we've seen already. Okay I kind of see cameraman's point, however maybe when we get to the back we will understand more like more better. The Gauntlet Node offers seamless integration with tablets and other popular mobile devices for a truly superior portable storage solution. Yeah, portable storage for your tablet or your phone or other mobile device. With the ability to connect up to 8 devices at a time and app support for iOS, Android and Kindle Fire and plug and play compatibility with Windows based operating systems, the Gauntlet Node provides an extremely robust and easy to use personal cloud for immediate access to stored media and data. With a built in battery, the Gauntlet Node will support up to 5.5 hours of continuous streaming for the ultimate entertainment solution on the go. Wi-Fi and 150 megabit per second, WEP and WPA PS key security is supported, non replaceable battery up to 5.5 hours of continuous streaming. So what is this thing? This is basically like a free agent GoFlex satellite except that you don't actually have to buy a free agent GoFlex satellite. It's also like Kingston's Y drive. So what you do is you get all your accessories and hoo-ha and doodads and what not going on here, you got all your components and you take your 2.5 inch drive which is here, you install it in here, you use a USB connection to drop whatever data you want onto the drive. Okay, oh it's USB 3.0, awesome, that's way better than the free agent GoFlex actually. That one is USB 2.0 which makes it slow and inconvenient to actually load things on it. So it comes, hold on, let's see how does this work, oh there we go, that was easy, it's just a sliding thing. Okay, so you throw your drive in here, you install your drive, all the batteries, see the battery, you can feel where the battery is because it weighs a lot on this side, batteries here, wireless chipsets and all that are there, data connections here, you got your, aha, your USB connection, so that's how you charge it and it goes in there like that. You also got just a dedicated power in, I guess that might also charge it, I don't know, something probably charges it. It comes with an adapter for USB, so yeah okay it looks like you can, you know what, why don't we just find out how to charge this thing. Alright so we figured it out, your Asian powered devices, AC adapter which you can unplug like that, plugs in by USB to either the dedicated charging port or the USB 3 port and it will charge it either way, so don't worry too much about it, in fact it's mind boggling to me that they even bothered to include a DC in, but yeah. I mean I guess if you're transferring data from your notebook and you don't want to power the drive off your notebook and then you plug this into the wall next to your notebook, but then that's not a very mobile solution, if you're using a notebook on a battery you probably don't have a wall charger nearby. So okay okay, cameraman's shaking his head at me because apparently that's pretty far fetched. So let's go ahead and take this apart, there's your power, no not power, something else. Oh that might check your battery, that's a battery life indicator, so you got four little LEDs there, that's kind of neat. So there you have it, five and a half hours of battery life, we're going to have to actually try the app before we can determine, so wait, stay tuned for our full NCIX tech tips on this one where we actually try it out. And I think that pretty much covers it, that's the Gauntlet Node from Patreon, don't forget to subscribe for all of our tech tips, for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. And this goes in there. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time.