In the past year, I reviewed many domestic router products, such as the Xiaomi router mini, Feixun K2, and Tenda AC18. These routers have a very high overall quality and can fully meet the needs of general households. In particular, the most impressive is the Xiaomi router mini: high cost performance, strong signal coverage inconsistent with the number of antennas, and a wealth of plug-ins and features. If a friend asked me: "My home's router is often dropped often crashed network instability watching the movie Karton." And other issues, I would not hesitate to suggest that he buy a millet router mini. However, after all, Xiaomi's router mini only has a hundred-year-old price, and there are still some disadvantages such as the lack of Gigabit ports, unstable USB-connected mobile hard disks, and slow data read/write speeds. Will Xiaomi Router HD, a new member of the Xiaomi router family, bring you an eye-opener and overcome all these shortcomings? Let us continue to look down!
Millet (MI) Router HD wifi signal amplification Dual-band routing Large-sized house through the wall Star Star Gray Intelligent Router 1299 yuan Millet Router HD is a product launched in 2017, metal body design, and compared with the millet router Pro to strengthen the cooling air duct design. Using Qualcomm IPQ8064 program, dual-core CPU, frequency 1.4GHz, there is also a dual-core 733MHz network coprocessor, can effectively share the CPU pressure, high-speed reading and writing hard disk will not affect the network quality, compared to the millet router Pro will Have a more stable performance. 51 Jingdong direct link to encyclopedia 
The SF box was received on the second day after receiving the SMS testimonial notice. The package was opened with excitement and trembling heart. Thanks to the trust of the mother and valued friends. 
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Have to say that this router is quite large, feel very heavy, even a little bigger than the last evaluation of Tenda AC18. However, this type of router with NAS function will certainly not be put into the weak box, so as long as the value is good, it can be placed on the table. 
. The entire frontal design is very simple, this time the test is a 1TB version.
On the back is a brief introduction of some major functions. I am more concerned about: automatic backup of mobile photo albums, remote file access and other functions. Other features such as Thunder download have been experienced on the Xiaomi router mini. It is not easy to use us. Wait until the evaluation section to say.
As a careful person, suddenly noticed this screenshot, according to the display of the above figure, the owner of the mobile phone is a married woman, and the scene design is quite real. At the same time, I also believe that the setup of Xiaomi's routers is simple and it can be completely controlled by non-professionals.
The lid is gently lifted, the product falls off automatically, aerodynamics praise! 
After opening the cover, the host appeared before our eyes.
The packaging box adopts a similar multi-box design. Millet that has been deeply cultivating electronic products for many years will not have a big problem in packaging. The cover of the multi-box is a flocked material with a product specification. Below the cover is a power adapter.
There are three items in the box: product host, power adapter, and instructions.
The design of the manual is very simple, you can see at a glance, and with millet settings relatively easy to grasp, this manual mainly describes some product attributes.
The power adapter that just torn the film, the light can tell the person, the exquisite workmanship is evident.
The total output of the adapter is as high as 36W. Considering the relatively large current at the start of the hard disk drive, the design power consumption is still redundant. The actual power consumption should be reasonable between 10-20W. In addition, the 8TB version will be equipped with a more powerful adapter.
The power adapter and the millet router mini have the same appearance, with only the difference in size. The other is that the connector is slightly thicker.
The host shell is made of black matte metal material, feels good, the front has MI's LOGO, the design is relatively rounded. There is a status indicator in front of you, you can use a variety of colors to indicate the working status, but personally think that it is too small, indicating that the role is not obvious. However, as routers are oblivious devices, no one will always pay attention to its existence.
On the back there is no other word except the Xiaomi router HD, which is very simple. The anti-slip mats are located around the router and have a m-shaped distribution.
The side of the grille is made of engineering plastic material, although it is plastic, but the texture is still very good, with a very good color matching.
The back is the part of the jack, equipped with a wan mouth and three lan mouth, full Gigabit and are dual-lamp, and then the power interface, switch key (in the description of the power button is tap, in fact, is needed Long press) and then USB3.0 interface. This configuration can be said to have been very comprehensive, the only regret is that the number of lan ports is slightly less, and heavy networks need to have five or eight Gigabit switches.
The antenna works well. In addition, it is worth mentioning that the damping effect of the antenna interface is just right, and there is a sense of passage. Xiaomi's design skills at the details are in place.
There are MiWiFi LOGOs at the end of the four antennas. The material of the entire antenna is very delicate and has a certain sense of quality.
If a router needs to work stably, it must be inseparable from a strong heart + large memory configuration. Originally I was going to dismantle this router to show everyone the internal hardware structure. However, after some trials, we finally had no choice but to give up this idea. I originally planned to replace the original 1T hard disk to 3T to increase storage space. However, when dismantling, I discovered that the design of this router is not designed for users to assemble the NAS. The entire dismantling process may be difficult for the average user to complete. But fortunately, even if you do not dismantle it, you can understand the hardware structure of the whole machine.
The millet was uncharacteristically not using MediaTek's program on Xiaomi's router HD, but switched to Qualcomm's embrace. As the saying goes, AMD has been very popular lately. If AMD didn't sell GPU technology to Qualcomm that year, it may come sooner. This router is equipped with a Qualcomm 1.4G dual-core IPQ8064 processor with 512M of memory. Although the hardware configuration is not outstanding, at this level, it is basically an overkill performance. Another important reason for choosing Qualcomm is that Qualcomm's processors can support MU-MIMO. Special wireless network blessings can be obtained when using Qualcomm Snapdragon CPUs or Apple 6 or higher Apple devices. This is BlackTech! 
In addition, this router's biggest feature - the quasi-NAS, of course, can not be separated from the existence of the hard disk, the picture above is Xiaomi's copy. "1TB HD streaming media hard drive" To be honest with the hardware for many years I really do not understand how to call HD streaming media hard drive until I Baidu.
The above figure comes from the network, this is the legendary 1TB HD streaming media hard drive. Not very mysterious, this is Seagate's surveillance hard drive, read and write performance is lower than the average desktop-class hard drive, but the advantage is low power consumption, suitable for 7 × 24 hours of work. It seems that Xiaomi is also well thought out. Using NAS-dedicated disks on a single-disc system is obviously a bigger investment and returns in general. It is obviously more appropriate to use monitor-class hard disks.
2, signal testing
Having said the hardware configuration, we first tested whether the essential work as a wireless router is excellent. I chose the Xiaomi router mini, Fiji K2, Xiaomi router HD to compete on the same stage. The test platform is Xiaomi 5S, and the test software is a WIFI analyzer.
In the ordinary 2.4G band, when passing through a wall, we get the test signal strength result is Xiaomi router HD> Feizhi K2> Xiaomi router Mini. The test results are basically in line with expectations, millet router mini, after all, only two antennas. The four-antenna Fiji K2 and Xiaomi router HD have achieved better results. This signal strength can fully meet the needs of the average family, of course, Villa said. .
In the 5G band, when passing through a wall, the measured signal strengths are as follows: Fiji K2> Xiaomi router HD> Xiaomi router Mini. However, the respective transmit frequencies of the three routers are slightly different.
3, reading and writing test
Map the network drive to map the router's hard disk to your home computer (username: admin, password set by yourself). Of course not mapped network drives, WIN10 system has also found a network drive named "Xiaomi_5588", this drive is public, no password protection. The entire operation is the same as the NAS. In addition to seeing this little penguin, you should know what system this router is using.
We uploaded a movie locally to the Xiaomi router HD, and then downloaded it locally from the Xiaomi router HD. Speed ​​has reached the level of Gigabit LAN. The whole experience is very fast, compared to the USB program of the mini router mini, the millet router HD of today has already passed this function from passing and outstanding! In addition, it is worth mentioning that because of the built-in storage device, when using this function, there is basically no process of freezing and waking up the hard disk, and the experience is good!
4, power consumption
As a perfect replacement for a NAS, low power consumption is also a necessary skill. The stable power consumption of the machine after power-on is about 11W, and even less than 10W when it is silent. The hard disk reads and writes slightly higher but does not exceed 16W. The overall power consumption is also very good.
The installation of the router is very simple, plug the cable, plug the cable, the machine automatically starts. The phone searches for wifi signals and then connects. Use your phone's browser to visit miwifi.com or 192.168.31.1. Then, as shown in the above figure, you can make preliminary settings and then you can use it. Then we follow the prompts to download the millet router app.
For those who have already purchased Xiaomi's router products, this app will certainly not be unfamiliar. Follow the prompts to first bind Xiaomi's products. I have to say that Xiaomi's product line is really comprehensive. I already have three Xiaomi apps on my mobile phone. . .
In the setup interface, you can see the current running status of the router and some basic settings for the router. The graphical UI interface is very simple. It takes only a few minutes to master the entire setup and is very friendly to beginners. Xiaomi’s advantages in software design are evident, and version updates are also frequent. In contrast, professional NAS product settings are much more complicated, of course, NAS still has irreplaceable advantages in data storage professionalism.
Thunder remote download, you can download remotely on your mobile phone or computer. You can watch the American drama you want to watch when you go to work, download it remotely, turn on your TV after you go home, and you can connect to the router through the file management software to watch it. Think about it. Very comfortable, science and technology change lives.
Once I was still using the millet router Mini, the most troublesome thing for me was this storage interface. I often waited for endless storage, then I was not able to find the storage device. U disk or mobile hard disk did not solve this problem properly. With the passing of times, now Xiaomi's router HD has solved this problem perfectly and has done even better. In the mobile phone APP can automatically backup albums and videos to the router, no longer have to endure the speed of the network disk and file size limit.
I tried to use a mobile phone to watch the video files on the router under the local WIFI. Thanks to the 5G high-speed transmission, there is almost no delay in fast forwarding.
Then the next day I was at the company (router at home), testing the remote access capabilities of the Xiaomi router HD. The test found that in addition to large video files that cannot be viewed remotely, other small files such as photos and documents are perfectly supported for offsite viewing. I must focus on this point: I used QNAP and Qunhui app because both of them are manufacturers from Taiwan Province. So the software's ease of use, connection speed is simply a mess. Remote access requires the support of equipment such as peanuts sticks, and the remote access that Xiaomi brings is simply a big boon to building a private cloud because supporting remote access requires continuous bandwidth and capital investment from vendors. Its data path is: your cell phone → millet server → your router → millet server → your cell phone. I can't access it remotely. It's also my biggest regret with QNAP. Thanks Xiaomi for helping me solve this problem. This is a private cloud that really belongs only to you, and you no longer have to be under the control of people.
As in the previous millet router design, the home page shows the basic state of the router. Content is expressed in a graphical format, clear and concise.
On the computer side, you can see more storage information and you can read the hard disk health. Of course, this data does not fully reflect the actual situation of the hard disk. After all, it is a single-disk system. The security of the hard disk determines everything. Probably about it, we will mention how to solve the data security problem later.
The other settings basically copied the previous design. The function of the router is so much more. It is different from the past that it added the MU-MIMO switch. The specific experience that this function can bring can not be tested, but it is Qualcomm's black technology, and it should be no small improvement.
Four, comprehensive evaluation advantages: Outstanding design, good signal coverage, low power consumption, perfect NAS function (very useful), easy to set up software, powerful APP.
The capacity of the hard disk is too small, it is inconvenient to replace the hard disk, the security of the single-disk storage system is poor, and the number of LAN ports is less.
After a few days of use, it feels inseparable from this millet router HD: automatically upload mobile phone photos and files every day, remotely download movies, and come back home to enjoy TV on the US TV show. It may be used to put files into the router when needed. APP opens. In the past, when buying a NAS, it only wanted to find a safe home for its own data. Because of the reason of the manufacturer, basically the data could only be shared in the local area network, but unfortunately it was out of the house. This NAS was disconnected from the outside world. Now with the Xiaomi router HD, the chain is finally closed. The NAS is no longer an island, but a true private cloud that can be accessed anywhere. In addition, because millet has always been careful for the user to consider, making this millet router HD very easy to use, even a beginner, through a short time to explore can also operate freely, millet skills in software design is indeed powerful. My title is a near-perfect alternative to home NAS. It can be said that apart from the problem of data security, this router has almost no flaws. Of course, Xiaomi also took this into consideration. There are settings in the software that automatically back up the specified folder to the mobile hard disk through USB 3.0, which also solves the data security problem to some extent. It is hoped that Xiaomi's next-generation products will be able to build a disk array and create a more secure file system, which will complete this short board. I think such a grounded gas product must be able to take on the functions of family data, entertainment and media center!
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