welcome to my unboxing of the Seagate Backup Plus portable drive it is a
portable hard drive which means it uses a notebook drive as opposed to a desktop
drive in an enclosure all right 2 and 1/2 in not 3 and 1/2 in Easy portable
backup for your Digital Life for PC or Mac now they do have a specific Max q
but the only real difference seems to be included cables as well as the
formatting of the drive out of the box you can actually reformat it to whatever
you need whichever one you buy so don't stress too much about whether you bought
the PC or the Mac edition for your grandson or granddaughter and you're not
sure what kind of a fangled computer they actually have don't stress out
about that just go ahead get the external hard drive and they can figure out the rest on their own for a pretty
cool reason and I'll get into that later aha right there upgradeable interface
even if you buy them totally the wrong thing with totally the wrong interface
they don't actually have to buy a whole new drive to replace it they can just just get a new interface cable plug it
in and they're Off to the Races social media backup yes what makes this a
Backup Plus the fact that it already
with the current Seagate software is capable not only of backing up things
that are on your computer but also saving photos from Facebook to your
drive so a lot of the time people these days are walking around with their
smartphones and they're all like taking pictures of stuff this is a
simulation um taking pictures of stuff and they're like oh yeah I'm going to
upload these to Facebook and so people can like them and uh so what happens a
lot of the time is those pictures if you don't religiously back up your phone
might never even end up on a computer so how do you back them up what if Facebook
at some point goes IPO in their stock tanks and then they disappear um maybe
they'll take all your pictures with them I'm just kidding that's probably not going to happen but if it does you can
back up all your Facebook photos to this drive with an easy interface so that is
pretty handy easily back up all of your other stuff locally and to the cloud
helps you protect all of that good stuff and flexible for all your needs Mac or
PC I think we've harped on that enough it's also very slim so let's go ahead
and open it up you got your uh limited warranty there is a
warranty on this
guy two years there you go twoe limited
warranty I wonder what an unlimited warranty would be someone who knows what
an unlimited warranty would be should like post under the com comments and
tell us about an unlimited warranty oh slick is actually pointing at something
that has an unlimited warranty snap on sorry about that guys battery are rather
battery uh memory card was full so Snap-on tools have an unlimited warranty
I could literally take this thing and like break it over the side of the table
and take it to them and they would give me a new one so there that is an unlimited warranty he's right all right
what do we got in terms of cables included we have a usb3 cable excellent
what else we got going on here well we have an external drive dve so this is a
500 gig Drive however it is available in a variety of capacities and we're going
to go ahead and remove the plastic wrap that is so hard to
remove there we go all right so we got like a matte finish going on on the
bottom we got like a shiny finish going on on the side we got a brushed finish
going on on the top which looks Just Deadly looks awesome can you see how
awesome it looks slick says no there we
go that is what it looks like I'm looking at the camera over his shoulder
okay this is what I mean about easy upgrade interfaces so this is just a
SATA interface back here very cool so I am personally a huge fan of their glex I
don't know if they're even are they even calling it that on this drive I don't
think they're even calling it that but this is what it was originally called was glex and glex was just um swappable
modular interfaces so you go ahead the chipset actually resides in here so you
go ahead and just click that in there now it's a usb3 drive because you've got
a usb3 TSA chipset in there there you go
take this off throw something else on there maybe you got EA maybe you got
fire wire it doesn't matter just clip that on and you're good to go so that is
my unboxing of the Backup Plus Slim drive from Seagate actually here let's
check out how slim it is so I have a like a third party external hard drive
going on over here and I thought this one was pretty
slim and pretty Sleek so uh this is a zman one let's go ahead and have a look
so those are about the same very cool so
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