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
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