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welcome to my unboxing of seagate's new Backup Plus desktop drive so this is

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easy backup for your Digital Life for PC and Mac although they do have two

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separate SKS one specifically for PC which happens to be this one and another

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Mac one but the main difference between those is the default formatting of the

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drive as well as the included connector

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so the PC oriented one comes with USB 3

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and the Mac oriented one comes with firewire 800 and USB 2 because right now

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Apple in their infinite wisdom is not supporting the USB 3

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standard on the side we see stuff that we'll see when we open it up on the back

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we see stuff that we can talk about while we're looking at the drive because

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honestly with a drive normally there's not a whole lot to talk about however

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this one is a little bit different so number one it has a fully recyclable

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package which is pretty cool has a 2-year limited warranty okay it

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has him a hard drive inside so this is a

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desktop Edition Drive which means it's not uh not one of their smaller drives

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that uses a 2 and 1/2 in internal drive inside this one uses a 3 and 1/2 in

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internal drive inside an external enclosure so there we go there's the

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drive itself what makes a backup plus a

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Backup Plus well it's good for backing up because

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it's hard drive and it's fast it's got usb3 just

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going to put that right about there okay

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plus is a software feature that cate's been working on it actually will allow

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you to easily back up even files that aren't necessarily on your computer so

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the one the example that they're using here on the packaging while I just sort

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of quickly get this open is Facebook so

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Backup Plus will allow you to quickly and easily back up that content on your

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Facebook so the pictures on your Facebook as well as other social media

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sites now right now the main one that's supported is Facebook however they're

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looking at even adding support for YouTube in the future so Cate is going

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to continue to work on the Backup Plus software so that I mean honestly like

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who even worries about what you do with a photo once you've already uploaded to

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Facebook in fact some of those photos probably never even make it to your

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computer if you don't back up your phone religiously for example then you could

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have photos that you've uploaded directly to Facebook from your phone that never even touched your compter

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computer that would be great if you had something automatically scraping your

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Facebook account and making sure that they're getting saved and uh and stored

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somewhere just in the event that you lose your phone or it gets stolen or

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something goes wrong with it you won't at least lose that media so this is a

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very difficult to remove configuration of putting plastic on the drive that uh

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I'm sort of having bit of a hard time with

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here they come apart so easily okay so the drive itself is

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pretty run-of-the-mill if you've seen a Seagate external hard drive you've

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probably seen one that looks sort of pretty much like this although there is

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something cool about it so if you guys remember their whole golex thing on

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their portable drives you know what I'm going to go grab a glex drive it's okay slick you can go look at that drive for

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a little bit while I go grab one um a

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where is it oh there it is okay so if you guys are familiar with

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their glex drives uh these were their last generation notebook glex driv so

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what's cool about them is they just have a SATA interface on the back very simple

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and then you can buy any variety of different connectors that actually have

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the chipset required for translating between in this case USB 3 and SATA

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built into the cable itself rather than having it built into the drive which

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locks you into a particular standard so seate has taken that concept and

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expanded it to the desktop drives so you can see this is just a SATA drive inside

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nothing complicated about it this is a 2 t Drive although it's compat it's

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available in a variety of formats uh format sizes and this is basically that

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glex piece that actually has the chipset has the logic has the power that goes

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and is routed through here into the this is the power connector this is the data

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connector into the drive itself which is really cool because it allows you to

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basically use these almost like U like VHS tapes to use sort of a a dated

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analogy so you want to Archive things okay you have like your bookshelf full

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of like you know glex units like this you go you label

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them or something you know you put a label on them whatever this happens to be so you go grab whichever is the most

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relevant one you know project that I worked on for okay let's say you're a

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wedding V wedding videographer or something so you put you know projects

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from date X to date Z throw it on there you work on everything right off the

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drive itself usb3 is fast enough to do that although there are more ideal

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Solutions such as this one right here which is also fully compatible uh so

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this is a Thunderbolt talking station

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see Thunderbolt so you can take that and put that on there that's even more ideal

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to work off of but you'll need a Thunderbolt compatible machine so

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basically yeah you just go oh okay you know I want to work on this or I want to

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see this project you want to work directly off the drive whether you're on a notebook or a desktop this kind of

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thing is very very

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handy see let's see how many times I have to

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do this before they just get bored and tune out ah ah oh right ventilation passive

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ventilation in the top active ventil or passive ventilation in the back so this

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won't make any noise and I I missed another plastic piece so thank you for

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checking out my unboxing of the Seagate Backup Plus remember the Plus Part

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besides all the usual features that come with these drives is the fact that you

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can now back up directly from your social media onto an external hard drive