so that video that's going around virally about how unboxings are stupid
um I will do as he requested I'm just
going to do away with the Box on this one very quickly here's the unboxing
component of today's video there it's gone I'm not going to talk about the
matching connector or the matching uh I
don't know whatever they're called packing materials okay we're just going
to we're just going to take off this plastic without any ceremony whatsoever
there you go are you happy is that better is that a better video
done just kidding guys I'm not done already okay so this is the Cloud store
powered by pogo plug this is a buffalo external hard drive product all right
the things that it comes with are a flat Ethernet cable which is very nice
looking you don't usually see uh products like this come with a nice high
quality Ethernet cable like that it's terrific all right we've also got an AC
todc power adapter so it's a 12vt 4 amp
power adapter got a plug looks a little something like that okay and we have a
wall plug that plugs into the power adapter look at this it goes in this way
or it goes in this way your choice
Innovative okay no I'm just kidding that's not the part of this as
Innovative so you can access and share anytime and anywhere so you have secure
accessible storage remote access from anywhere easy secure sharing and no
service contracts or fees now that part
is cool this is a one tbte product it's a 2 Bay single hard drive so what that
means is that Buffalo has innovatively found a way to make their device have a
single hard drive take up two bays no
I'm just kidding that's not how it works what actually happens is you take off
the front here and you can install an additional drive into the Cloud store if
you'd like so I'm just going to show you guys the procedure for removing the drive that is pre-installed you just do
that and then you can pull out the drive
so inside we have a Seagate Barracuda
7200.12 1 tbte drive and we can go ahead
and put it back in should be so
desire just like that so now it's clipped in it's not going to go anywhere
so you just use the loop to pull it out from the back so you can actually see the mechanism here that pulls it out and
just pull this down so that it'll come out all right so let's go ahead and
throw the front back on
there we are okay so we have power function as well as info SL error LEDs
on the front of the unit although there's no power switch on the front of the unit because innovatively Buffalo
has located that on the back we have our power in a Kensington lock we've also
got our Ethernet port we have Auto on
and off for our power switch as well as one USB port and a function
button let's see what else Buffalo has to say for themselves elves on the Cloud
store box so there's your home network so that means you can take apparently
music documents videos and whatever that
is oh pictures and you can stream them to your home computer to a mobile device
such as an iPad and then from there you can go to the Internet which is the
cloud aspect of this particular device and you can access your data with a
mobile device such as a smartphone uh like the Apple iPhone Android or
blackberry and palm wow so they've got full support for all those different
platforms there that's really cool and then a PC or a Mac so whether that's a
laptop or a desktop whatever the case may be if you have network access you
will be able to get your files so here they actually show the software so
here's uh Austin evidently so there's a bunch of photos here these are Brian's
photos from Europe and you've got a bunch of different things here actually
we should have a look at the software in a couple minutes here so you can freely access share and you can share your
photos slideshows videos and music and much more with anyone anywhere through the cloud no contract set up the Cloud
store in second so we're going to test that how long it actually takes to do that adding capacity is a snap by
inserting a second hard drive so I actually don't see anything in here
about raid so it looks like all you get to do by adding an additional Drive is
just increase the capacity you've got an intuitive web interface setup Cloud
stores Drive letter or a device on your PC your user experience Remains the Same
whether you are at home or away it supports bit torrent UPnP and apparently
Facebook and Twitter so that's kind of neat what else is here oh that is a
gigabit Ethernet port so the speed of this device should could be pretty
decent and it does support raid one or
jbod so jbod means that you're just increasing the capacity raid one means
you can throw in two identical drives and you can have them mirrored for
additional data security so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
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