welcome to my unboxing of a new external
drive solution from Seagate this is the glex desk for mac and while I normally
don't really focus on Mac products too much on this channel don't hit the
dislike button yet guys because this
product is not only for Mac the thing that makes it for Mac is the fact that
it is Thunderbolt ready but Thunderbolt has has arrived on the PC here's a
highend ASUS motherboard bam Thunderbolt
so we are actually going to be trying this out on a PC so we'll find out just
how Mac optimized it happens to be but in the meantime yes okay mostly
Thunderbolt has been de played on the Mac up to 20 times faster than USB 2 up
to two times faster than USB 3 it is compatible with Apple Time Machine good
for it it can also car oh check this out it includes a Thunderbolt cable this is
no small matter because Thunderbolt cables are not cheap they are not the
same as DisplayPort cables even though the pinout and the physical connector
looks the same on first glance they are
different because a Thunderbolt cable
actually has active processing actual
chips in either end of the cable it is an active cable that makes it able to
carry such an immense amount of data over that kind of a distance in an
external connector okay durable soft touch finish high performance desktop
hard drive compatible with Thunderbolt displays and other devices okay 10 GB
per second interface is up 12 times faster than firewire 800 dual ports
allowing daisy chaining up to six devices minimizing clutter on your desktop and inside the Box you got a
bunch of stuff which we are obviously going to find because we are going to
open the box let's look at the accessories first in here we find a
power connector okay we also find a aha
this is my trivial no laughing matter included Thunder cable so one of the
easiest ways to tell the difference between a Thunderbolt cable and a
DisplayPort cable is the Thunderbolt logo on
it okay so yes DisplayPort cables will have a DP logo Thunderbolt ready cables
will have a Thunderbolt logo also for the time being most Thunderbolt cables
have a much longer connector than most DisplayPort cables let me actually go
find one all right so these are some of the different ways the cables can be
recognized so the two on the outsides are Thunderbolt the one with the DP on
it this one right here is DisplayPort and the one with no label but the
shorter connector is also DisplayPort so Thunderbolt cables can carry display
port signals but DisplayPort cables cannot carry Thunderbolt signals because
they don't have the active processing chips inside the cables okay so here's
our Thunderbolt cable Tada okay moving
on next we have the glex desk
Thunderbolt adapter this is a quick start guide so
let's have a look let's see how you quick start okay you get all the stuff
and then you plug the thing into the thing into the other thing so the wall
into the thing into the other thing okay you use only with a seate provided
limited power supply okay got it done
number two you plug the Thunderbolt thing into the other Thunderbolt thing
with the Thunderbolt cable bam that's how quick it
is Holy Smokes okay let's open up the
actual drive itself oo this actually feels very nice yeah they do they have
that soft touch finish on it seems pretty durable at first glance that's
kind of nice got ventilation in the back
so you can see right there so oh oh yeah okay okay okay okay okay okay okay so
this looks solid from here and then this is open so it's like business in the
front party in the
back yeah I went there okay so um here I
want to clarify something a little bit so here's we've got a Seagate 3 and 1/2
in external drive okay this glex desk
for Mac is actually a combination of two products sort of so the 3 and 1/2 in
drive is from their okay so this is
their Backup Plus drive so you can buy another Backup Plus drive and then you
can actually mount it see it's just a say a connection down there so you just
mount it to the Thunderbolt docking station right here so you got a couple
little foam bits here so you don't scratch up your drive when you're putting it in and out also got um this
is going to get really shiny if I take that off so slick will thank me for leaving it on but you've got like a
plastic cover for um protecting this
surface as well okay you've got four three posts here as well as the SATA
connectors you've got what looks like ventilation holes in the bottom four
rubber pieces here to keep it from slipping around and power and two
Thunderbolt connections as well as a Seagate logo so you can actually use
this as a quick and convenient way to
instead of just using like external drives like you know just just lying
around you just buy these with their modular sort of goflex I don't know if
they call yeah they still call it glex okay so the like glex interface I don't
know if you guys know this but we use glex drives for our test bench because
that allows us to quickly switch between usb3 eeta or whatever is the most
convenient interface just with their glex cable connectors so this uses like
a glex type interface to clip into the Thunderbolt base or there are ones that
as you can see here don't come with a Thunderbolt base they come with a
different base and then you just leave the base plugged in you get a bunch of
these and you can just kind of go okay you put it oh hopefully I can get it to
come off there we go W that Clips on there pretty good okay so you just you
know you put like a label on it like blah blah blah video archive June
whatever to May what may goes before June so so June 2012 to May 2013 um you
put that away you keep it on a shelf you get another one you throw it onto your
your Thunderbolt docking port here your whatever they want to call it glex desk
Thunderbolt dock guy and then you go ahead and start filling up a new one so
the advantage of Thunderbolt is that compared to interfaces like USB which
aren't really designed for intensive IO
they're fast but they're mostly fast with pure sequential reads and writs if
you want to actually use it as a scratch disc or use it to run applications off
of say for example if you have a notebook that doesn't have a ton of internal storage because it uses an SSD
and you want to be able to plug into your desk and have mass storage that is
going to be truly fast even when you're accessing small files and even when
you're running programs directly off of it something like this is going to be
the way to go even compared to Solutions like USB 3 so thank you for checking out
my unboxing and first look at the Seagate glex desk for mac and PC because
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