so here we are in the Seagate Suite with three tiers of products although only
one of them is going to make me cry let's find out why so we'll start as
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right here with the Backup Plus ultra slim which as you you imagine it if
folks out there might be able to imagine is ultra slim so it's a 7mm Drive inside
a 9.6 mm plastic enclosure it's got a standard USB 3 mini B that sort of goofy
dual connector thing on the back and other than the fact that it comes with a
couple hundred gigs of cloud storage is not really that different from other
small slim external drives that seate has done in the past it's available in
one and two terab capacities and has got kind of this like honeycomb design that
I'm sure you know someone at Seagate worked really hard on and then was like
super upset when Seagate was like well we're going to do a more Premium One
it's going to have a metal enclosure but we're going to turn to uh Porsche to
design this so you know Johnny from Johnny from industrial design you can
just kind of maybe take like a couple month leave of absence we're going to
have someone else work on this one but the good news is that Porsche Design
actually did do a pretty nice job of it it's an all aluminum ID it's got kind of
that beveled Edge thing going on which I guess if you're into the looks of
products is kind of cool there's a relatively thin one and there's also
available in a 4 TB capacity a much thicker one but if you're like me and
you're all into like specs and megabytes and connectors then the real cool stuff
is actually on the back where it's got a USB type-c connector and this is man
these standards have gotten confusing 3.1 gen 1 so that's 5 gigabit that's
like what we used to call USB 3.0 but for some reason they're just want to
make all of our heads explode so thanks for that there's also a desktop version
of this one available on 4 five and 8 tabt also same thing super speed USB spe
3.1 gen one Etc and this one has
external power a to power the drive and B this is cool you can power up and
charge your MacBook with it if you connect via that single connector that
apple in their Infinite Wisdom put on the MacBook Retina which leads us to the
one that makes me cry a little bit and there's different kinds of Tears
associated with this as well although this is definitely the top tier product
so they turned back to Neil pton to
design this very mirror like what
they're calling the Chom because that is how to achieve true
pretentiousness to put an aent A on the
end of a word that would have otherwise worked simply fine so the Chrome a is
actually a solid state based Drive even though it's in a 3 and 1 half inch drive
like looking enclosure size it's got
this like sick magnetic base like check this out like it it's like stuck it's like
freaking magnets right how do they work there you go so it's got this magnetic
base that it like locks onto oh get
off which it like re like really goes on to this one uses USB 3.1 Gen 2 or
whatever anyway 10 gigabit per second connectivity through a type-c connector
also has external power and there's a lot of cool stuff under the hood here it uses two m.2 ssds inside for a total
capacity of 1 tbte and you're kind of sitting here going well on a second like
it looks like a hard drive it's got Seagate on the outside of the bo well l
c actually Seagate owns L I should have probably clarified that why does it have
an SSD inside well my friends it's for performance this puppy is capable of 1
Gigabyte per second read speeds over
that typ c connector pretty freaking amazing right when can I sign up you
probably won't unless you're the same type of customer that's heading over to
the uh Sennheiser Booth to pre-order the $50,000 orus because this my friends is
a $1,300 external hard drive except that
it's an SSD but you know whatever we're not going to we're not going to nitpick
these little details yes my friends it is not cheap but it is beautiful and the
reality of it is is that while the the tears I cry over the performance are
tears of joy the and the tears I cry over the price are tears of I can't
afford one what I do like about this is
at at least seate through the ly brand
has the coonies to say okay we're going to build a premium product and we are
going to price it like a premium product and sure you can still buy a plastic
hard drive but you also don't have to you know if your desk costs as much as
someone else's car in your office you can put this on it and you can feel like
a big shot I know I would so thanks for
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