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drives aren't really allowed to just be a hard drive anymore it seems this is
the Wireless Plus from Seagate and yeah it's an external hard drive and I mean I
guess that yeah still makes it a hard drive comes with a three-year warranty
just like Seagate drives tend to come with has a fully recyclable package with
a QR code on it so that's very exciting as well fully recyclable very very cool
and we're just going to open it up before we actually tell you anything about the Wireless Plus so the first
thing that we can tell you once it's open if I could get it open and I've
ruined the package that's okay is that it's kind of similar except more
advanced to this one that is the glex
satellite The goflex Branding has been abandoned but the concept of taking your
media with you wherever you want to go has not been abandoned so this is the
allnew Wireless Plus it has a more sort
of modern looking industrial design so instead of those rounded Corners it has
sort of a sharper top and bottom to it there you go there's holding up the
older drive just for comparison there it has a bit of a different color scheme
going on to it so it's sort of a a textured looking uh gray that looks very
industrial has a bit of a different feel to it it's not so glossy so it's not
going to get all finger printy and ugly as quickly as the older one did the
bottom is soft touch which I love the bottom of the old one was not soft touch
So Soft Touch which I love there's your power in all right there's the front of
the drive there's the other side of the drive there's your power button which is
actually located pretty similarly to the old one in fact it's yeah Power ends in
the same place as well although the plug is different and then the bottom start
out here this is the new unit soft touch feel as well as four little rubber feet
so that's not going to go anywhere and
that's pretty much it for the physicality of it there's an indicator for wireless which brings us to why it's
called the Wireless Plus as well as charging and in terms of other
accessories you've got a quick start guide you've got a not called glex cable
apparently anymore but you've got one of their sort of
flexible interface cables there you go so that plugs into the drive like that
the particular one that's included is USB 3 although you could plug in
different ones if you wanted to access it via fire wire or um I mean eSATA or
anything else that might actually matter USB 3 is going to be the most important
one though it could even use Thunderbolt if you wanted it also comes with a USB
to power adapter so you don't have to plug it into a computer just to power it
and finally a wall wart that allows you to not plug it into a computer just to
charge it so let's talk about what makes it special it is a wireless drive so you
can store up to it's a one tbte drive for this particular model here so you
could store up to 500 HD videos on it which is kind of cool so you can take
that around with you has a 10-hour battery life it comes with seates own
completely upgraded app and the one for
the uh see I keep forgetting what it's called the one for the glex satellite
was actually not bad but the Wireless Plus adds a different form of UI so it
allows you to not only Browse by folder structure but also to browse with media
thumbnails and things like that it also adds uploading so now you can back up
full-size pictures or videos or whatever else from your iOS Android or Kindle
Fire device this is not either of any of those things this is a Windows device
but there you go uh so you can instead of you know being forced to down sample
something when you email it to yourself uh you can connect up to three devices
to it at a time streaming in HD or up to eight devices at a time if you're just
looking at photos or or browsing it or doing whatever else it is airPlay
compatible which I personally think is one of the coolest things about it
because if you have an Apple TV or whatever else you can actually beam
things to your big screen using this little guy and it is DLNA compliant as
well so we're actually going to have some more coverage of this on the tech
quickie Channel upcoming where we sort of dive into it a bit more in depth but
I think that pretty much wraps it up for our unboxing thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the
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