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are pretty difficult to get excited about these days uh especially with ssds
being so much faster and more rugged so
you can like Chuck them around and all that stuff but is there still a place
for the hard drive well depends who you ask ad data obvious vious ly plays in
both the external hard drive and USB storage spaces and they've also got ssds
as well so apparently they still think there's a place for the hard drive and
this one right here is pretty unique so it has a three-year warranty it uses
super speed USB 3 however that will be bottlenecked by the hard drive itself
inside and it uses the new slim form
factor hard drives that are available on the market so both WD and Seagate have
been making a ton of noise about these Slimmer form factor drives so one tab
Drive drives or up to 1 TB drives available in a 7 mil form factor and
then up to 500 gig drives available in a 5 mil form factor so this guy right here
I don't know what drives in there but it's only 8.9 mm thick which means it's
definitely not a 9 and a half mm drive
it uses a stainless steel enclosure so
you can actually see it's got a beautiful brushed finish on it in
addition to the mirror finish that has the Ad h720 Logo in the middle of it
then we can go ahead and flip it over it actually has some weight to it which I
don't mind for a product like this where it makes it feel more quality as opposed
to making it feel heavy it's not the kind of thing that you'll be carrying
around you know like a phone like hey you know oh my ARM sure getting tired
from holding this up and it's actually not that much heavier than a smartphone anyway I love metal finishes we're going
to go ahead and pop out my HTC1 so we can do a quick size comparison just to
give you guys some idea how slim this is
um again depending who you ask the hard drive is very much not dead
and they are determined to keep updating it for modern devices so there you go
there's that size comparison at the back you find the OneTouch backup Button as
well as the usb3 interface and that is
pretty much all there is to say about it physically so I guess uh it comes down
to software so they include One Touch backup software they also include their
OS to go utility which is uh I mean
honestly it's nothing that special all it does is it takes an operating system
that you have on dis and it converts it
to this drive so you can install over USB okay you can do it manually but okay
if you don't want to figure out how to do that it's kind of Handy to have that but they also have their HDD to go which
allows you to take around some of the settings from your computer plug it in
and then use it as um as kind of like a
no Trace Left Behind way of using that computer so it'll bring over your
favorites it'll allow you to sync the desktop as well as my documents folder
and then once you unplug all of that goes away with so I think that's pretty
neat as well the stainless steel finish has a nine hardness scratch resistance
so I don't know I'm kind of tempted to like try it out now so at least if we
take something like let's take like the end of a let's take the end of a pen
here see if we can oh yeah we can scratch it it's not that
bad accessory wise it includes a simple
USB 3 A2 micro connector as well I'm not
a bigan of micro connectors but I understand why on a super slim product
like this it's been used as well as a little plastic carrying case so you can
uh here you go keep it safe mind you to
me you'd have to make a pretty strong argument for taking a nice slim sexy
product that's durable already and putting a sort of bulky connect like
bulky case on it looks really good this way thank you for checking out this
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know what do you think is there still a place for hard drives given how much
less expensive they are compared to ssds
or would you be wanting to switch to exclusively SSD or flash-based storage
moving forward it should be noted that the finish on here is pretty fingerprint
uh attracting however it looks like see
there you go giv you guys a pretty bit of a look at it however they seem to wipe off relatively easily which is
something that I would often criticize about other finishes is that they uh
they're difficult to clean and this one doesn't seem to have that problem