welcome to my unboxing of seagate's new Backup Plus desktop drive so this is
easy backup for your Digital Life for PC and Mac although they do have two
separate SKS one specifically for PC which happens to be this one and another
Mac one but the main difference between those is the default formatting of the
drive as well as the included connector
so the PC oriented one comes with USB 3
and the Mac oriented one comes with firewire 800 and USB 2 because right now
Apple in their infinite wisdom is not supporting the USB 3
standard on the side we see stuff that we'll see when we open it up on the back
we see stuff that we can talk about while we're looking at the drive because
honestly with a drive normally there's not a whole lot to talk about however
this one is a little bit different so number one it has a fully recyclable
package which is pretty cool has a 2-year limited warranty okay it
has him a hard drive inside so this is a
desktop Edition Drive which means it's not uh not one of their smaller drives
that uses a 2 and 1/2 in internal drive inside this one uses a 3 and 1/2 in
internal drive inside an external enclosure so there we go there's the
drive itself what makes a backup plus a
Backup Plus well it's good for backing up because
it's hard drive and it's fast it's got usb3 just
going to put that right about there okay
plus is a software feature that cate's been working on it actually will allow
you to easily back up even files that aren't necessarily on your computer so
the one the example that they're using here on the packaging while I just sort
of quickly get this open is Facebook so
Backup Plus will allow you to quickly and easily back up that content on your
Facebook so the pictures on your Facebook as well as other social media
sites now right now the main one that's supported is Facebook however they're
looking at even adding support for YouTube in the future so Cate is going
to continue to work on the Backup Plus software so that I mean honestly like
who even worries about what you do with a photo once you've already uploaded to
Facebook in fact some of those photos probably never even make it to your
computer if you don't back up your phone religiously for example then you could
have photos that you've uploaded directly to Facebook from your phone that never even touched your compter
computer that would be great if you had something automatically scraping your
Facebook account and making sure that they're getting saved and uh and stored
somewhere just in the event that you lose your phone or it gets stolen or
something goes wrong with it you won't at least lose that media so this is a
very difficult to remove configuration of putting plastic on the drive that uh
I'm sort of having bit of a hard time with
here they come apart so easily okay so the drive itself is
pretty run-of-the-mill if you've seen a Seagate external hard drive you've
probably seen one that looks sort of pretty much like this although there is
something cool about it so if you guys remember their whole golex thing on
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
a little bit while I go grab one um a
where is it oh there it is okay so if you guys are familiar with
their glex drives uh these were their last generation notebook glex driv so
what's cool about them is they just have a SATA interface on the back very simple
and then you can buy any variety of different connectors that actually have
the chipset required for translating between in this case USB 3 and SATA
built into the cable itself rather than having it built into the drive which
locks you into a particular standard so seate has taken that concept and
expanded it to the desktop drives so you can see this is just a SATA drive inside
nothing complicated about it this is a 2 t Drive although it's compat it's
available in a variety of formats uh format sizes and this is basically that
glex piece that actually has the chipset has the logic has the power that goes
and is routed through here into the this is the power connector this is the data
connector into the drive itself which is really cool because it allows you to
basically use these almost like U like VHS tapes to use sort of a a dated
analogy so you want to Archive things okay you have like your bookshelf full
of like you know glex units like this you go you label
them or something you know you put a label on them whatever this happens to be so you go grab whichever is the most
relevant one you know project that I worked on for okay let's say you're a
wedding V wedding videographer or something so you put you know projects
from date X to date Z throw it on there you work on everything right off the
drive itself usb3 is fast enough to do that although there are more ideal
Solutions such as this one right here which is also fully compatible uh so
this is a Thunderbolt talking station
see Thunderbolt so you can take that and put that on there that's even more ideal
to work off of but you'll need a Thunderbolt compatible machine so
basically yeah you just go oh okay you know I want to work on this or I want to
see this project you want to work directly off the drive whether you're on a notebook or a desktop this kind of
thing is very very
handy see let's see how many times I have to
do this before they just get bored and tune out ah ah oh right ventilation passive
ventilation in the top active ventil or passive ventilation in the back so this
won't make any noise and I I missed another plastic piece so thank you for
checking out my unboxing of the Seagate Backup Plus remember the Plus Part
besides all the usual features that come with these drives is the fact that you
can now back up directly from your social media onto an external hard drive