welcome to my unboxing of the seate Backup Plus for Mac it is time machine
compatible and it is a backup for your
digital life including well your time machine which is I mean apparently
apples are time machines no I'm just kidding I know what time machine is um
basically it's just you know Apple's clever branding for you know what I
don't have to prove I know what time machine is I think you guys believe me I know what time machine is um so yeah it
works with time machine it also works with Facebook so what's really cool
about all of their Backup Plus drives is the software that's included with a
Backup Plus drive not only backs up your computer but can also back up data that
you have stored in the cloud I mean remember Facebook is just cloud storage
basically I mean you take a bunch of photos you upload them to Facebook and then you don't necessarily think about
how safe they are you know what if uh what if Facebook didn't exist tomorrow
and it took all your photos with it well this way you can make sure that your
Facebook photos and other social media sites can be backed up as well I heard
that they're going to be working on adding support for YouTube so I really hope they do that although it wouldn't
necessarily work for me because I have a lot of stuff on YouTube but if you just
have like you know a couple pictures of your dog or like your baby that you
wanted to show you know baby's grandma or whatever on a YouTube account you
want to make sure you have it backed up somewhere this will work for you now it
is compatible with Mac and PC the only real difference between a Mac edition
Drive and a PC edition Drive is the
included cabl so let's have a look at what is included with our Mac edition
Drive we' got a quick start guide plug the thing into the other thing and the
first thing seate limited warranty that is a 2-year warranty on this particular
retail product we've got in
here all of our cables so there's your power cable for the unit itself as well
as a USB 2 cable and the math Edition I
think actually includes more CBL a FireWire 800 cable so that is once again
more useful for Mac users than it is for PC users CU not a lot of PCS use
firewire 800 because it is a slow
redundant standard at this point in time with USB 3 just giving it the old how do
you do in terms of performance so the dock down here is oh this is kind of
cool why does it do that okay well it has two fire wire 800 ports why does it
do that oh can you can you daisy chain firewire 800 that's kind of cool okay so
it has power in fire wire as well as USB
2 so you can use it on a PC performance will just kind of uh bite compared to
using usb3 or fire wire 800 so the drive
is pretty bog standard okay so youve got your ventilation at the top it looks
pretty slick it has a soft touch feel that's another difference between the
Apple skew and the PC skew that we saw before um that one had more of a shiny
finish to it whereas this one is a more of a matte finish um in terms of
ventilation you've also got ventilation at the back so passive air flow is going
to kind of come up through here float up through the top I mean drives run so
cool these days especially seagate's latest ones using the one tbyte platters
so this is a 2 tab Drive which means there's only two platters in there um it
also has a fair bit of metal in the enclosure so it has some weight to it and this piece up here is actually metal
so you don't have to worry too much about the heat just getting contained in
there now what I love about seates drives originally I was sort of this was
a bit of a head scratcher for me because they released this drive and the sales
pitch as far as I could tell was like you buy a drive and then you like it
doesn't have an interface on it and you like the interface chipset in the cable
and you plug it in and then you have whatever interface you want now that
it's sort of more mature and they have a lot more products as part of the ecosystem it totally makes sense to me
now so instead of building expensive enclosures that have a bunch of
different chipsets in them seate builds a less expensive enclosure that has no
logic in it whatsoever it's just an enclosure with a SATA interface at the
back no problem then they actually put
the logic that you need into a cable or a docking station or whatever else so
the fire wire chips set and the power is all done in here not in here this is
just a drive that is you know nice and compatible and whatnot so this is one of
their last generation notebook uh like
portable drives so that's USB 3 in fact
if this you know Drive in here could be powered by this I could actually just do
that cuz it's just oh no I can't even do that they're not going to let me do that okay well I thought maybe um but because
this requires a drive that's low power enough to be powered by a USB port it
probably makes sense that they don't let me do that because it would just be bad
try to draw too much power from the USB port and then no one would be happy okay
so this goes on here now not only this but you can actually take this drive and
you can swap it onto a variety of other different docks whether they USB 3 at
the back or whether you have like the whole big like Thunderbolt one so you
can daisy chain a bunch of Thunderbolt external drives um and another thing
that you can do with them is you can actually just keep one dock next to your computer whether it's Thunderbolt or USB
3 or whatever else the case may be I'd recommend something pretty high performance if you're going to use it to
actually run applications or or edit photos or video off of but what's cool
about it is you can actually just kind of leave it there and then you can use
these these drives more as like cassettes so you go and you keep a bunch
on your bookshelf you label them with whatever you know data happens to be on
them you know like you know my private Video Collection or whatever else the
case may be and then you just go and plug in whichever one you happen to need
at a given time and you're good to go you just when you're done you unplug it
and put it somewhere safe and then no big problems can occur so I think that
pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the seate
Backup Plus for mac and don't forget to subscribe C's Tech tips for unboxings
reviews and other computer videos