{"video_id":"4A54lV36QeE","title":"Seagate Backup Plus for Mac Mobile External Hard Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":280,"segments":[{"start_s":7.2,"end_s":14.16,"text":"welcome to my unboxing of the seate Backup Plus for Mac this is a portable","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.0,"end_s":16.44,"text":"drive versus their more desktop oriented","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.16,"end_s":20.88,"text":"Drive which I also happen to have here now the key difference between the Mac","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.88,"end_s":22.6,"text":"SKS and the PC SKS is things like color","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.88,"end_s":27.8,"text":"and things like the included cables because PCS are generally going to be","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.84,"end_s":31.72,"text":"USB 3 and Mac are generally not going to be USB 3 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think that pretty much covers it anyway so thank you for checking out my unboxing at the Backup","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":274.12,"end_s":281.44,"text":"Plus for Mac portable drive and don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":278.16,"end_s":281.44,"text":"computer videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"welcome to my unboxing of the seate Backup Plus for Mac this is a portable drive versus their more desktop oriented Drive which I also happen to have here now the key difference between the Mac SKS and the PC SKS is things like color and things like the included cables because PCS are generally going to be USB 3 and Mac are generally not going to be USB 3 because apple and their Infinite Wisdom doesn't believe in USB 3 although they'll probably change their tune now that Intel's integrated it onto their chipsets um you also see so you see things like fire wire 800 included instead of uh USB 3 although this one looks like it is just USB 2 so in this case the uh the Mac edition the Mac edition one gets the shaft because uh it just gets a silver housing which I guess will look better with your Mac it is time machine compatible although so is so is anything with uh you know storage on it and it is macOS compatible but then again so is anything with storage on it because it is also Windows compatible and it just comes down to what the preconfigured formatting is so time to P social media ah this is cool though Backup Plus drives have software that not only allow you to easily back up your computer but also your social media so they're mostly focused on Facebook right now hence the Facebook logo on the back of the drive you can back up all of the photos that you've already uploaded to Facebook once you uh throw your account credentials on here so you can make sure that it can actually grab them for you and they're looking at adding support for additional social media sites in the future flexible for all your needs Mac users increase transfer rate by upgrading to firewire or Thunderbolt adapter which you can get sold separately although that Thunderbolt one's probably pretty pricey however if you wanted to get the most out of actually running applications directly off the drive or whatever the case may be you probably do want to use Thunderbolt versus firewire 800 which is sort of slow quick start guide all right and a very Apple looking drive going on in here so we got just like a Seagate logo ly thing it's kind of silver on the top kind of white on the bottom which is about as apple as it gets silver and white I mean could it be more Apple if it tried I guess they could put an Apple logo on it but Apple might get upset they tend not to really like that if you just go and like put an Apple logo on things it's not that I'm saying Seagate would want to put an Apple logo on their product I mean Seagate is a well-respected brand I don't know why they'd go uh you know putting apple on it that wouldn't help my opinion um sorry that was my uh that was my PC Gamer hat that I was wearing there I'm taking it off now um so anyway we got a Seagate logo thing going on we got a o nice aluminum top so that's something the PC version didn't get um however they did get a usb3 chipset so the good thing about all of that though is because these are using the seate sort of glex I don't know if they still use that I guess USM is the new branding for it but uh whatever it is they use their modular interfaces at the back which means it's just a sated Drive in a you know plas plastic // aluminum enclosure and then all you have to do if you want to use a different interface with it is Source a different interface cable whether it's Thunderbolt firewire 800 USB 3 doesn't matter you Source a different interface module plug it into the drive and now this is a stylish looking like brush oh did I say the PC one wasn't metal no it's not metal okay stylish brushed looking you know black/ silver SL white drop that is now USB 3 ready it's that simple guys because all of the logic is actually in here not here this is just a drive and I I love this concept because it has saved my bacon any number of times when I've gone compared to traditional Solutions which were that the enclosure had all the logic built into it and then you had whatever interfaces you had if you wanted to have two different interfaces you had to have them both you had to have all the logic you had to spend more on your drive in order to in order to make sure that you'd be able to plug it into whatever you want well I just have a bunch of these cables lying around these days and then if I ever run into a scenario where I'm like oh shoot that system doesn't support usb3 but it does have power D and I want to get the best performance possible I throw my power D SATA one on there plug in my drive and I'm good to go so uh that is that is the solution for that and that's why I like it so uh oh yeah look at that this one also has like a raised like sexy shiny Seagate logo and this one has just like a flat Cate logo this one's like more better shinier and it's oh running out of battery too so I think that pretty much covers it anyway so thank you for checking out my unboxing at the Backup Plus for Mac portable drive and don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}