WEBVTT 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:15.719 welcome to my unboxing of the seate Backup Plus for Mac it is time machine 00:00:12.719 --> 00:00:18.119 compatible and it is a backup for your 00:00:15.719 --> 00:00:22.000 digital life including well your time machine which is I mean apparently 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:25.960 apples are time machines no I'm just kidding I know what time machine is um 00:00:24.439 --> 00:00:29.599 basically it's just you know Apple's clever branding for you know what I 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:35.680 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 00:00:33.399 --> 00:00:39.320 works with time machine it also works with Facebook so what's really cool 00:00:37.239 --> 00:00:43.280 about all of their Backup Plus drives is the software that's included with a 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:46.719 Backup Plus drive not only backs up your computer but can also back up data that 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:51.520 you have stored in the cloud I mean remember Facebook is just cloud storage 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:57.680 basically I mean you take a bunch of photos you upload them to Facebook and then you don't necessarily think about 00:00:55.440 --> 00:01:01.039 how safe they are you know what if uh what if Facebook didn't exist tomorrow 00:00:59.160 --> 00:01:04.320 and it took all your photos with it well this way you can make sure that your 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:08.400 Facebook photos and other social media sites can be backed up as well I heard 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:12.720 that they're going to be working on adding support for YouTube so I really hope they do that although it wouldn't 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:16.000 necessarily work for me because I have a lot of stuff on YouTube but if you just 00:01:14.360 --> 00:01:19.520 have like you know a couple pictures of your dog or like your baby that you 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:22.000 wanted to show you know baby's grandma or whatever on a YouTube account you 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:26.320 want to make sure you have it backed up somewhere this will work for you now it 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:32.119 is compatible with Mac and PC the only real difference between a Mac edition 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:34.799 Drive and a PC edition Drive is the 00:01:32.119 --> 00:01:38.200 included cabl so let's have a look at what is included with our Mac edition 00:01:36.479 --> 00:01:41.640 Drive we' got a quick start guide plug the thing into the other thing and the 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:48.640 first thing seate limited warranty that is a 2-year warranty on this particular 00:01:44.240 --> 00:01:48.640 retail product we've got in 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:58.320 here all of our cables so there's your power cable for the unit itself as well 00:01:54.040 --> 00:02:00.479 as a USB 2 cable and the math Edition I 00:01:58.320 --> 00:02:05.320 think actually includes more CBL a FireWire 800 cable so that is once again 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:11.920 more useful for Mac users than it is for PC users CU not a lot of PCS use 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:14.440 firewire 800 because it is a slow 00:02:11.920 --> 00:02:21.560 redundant standard at this point in time with USB 3 just giving it the old how do 00:02:18.640 --> 00:02:25.599 you do in terms of performance so the dock down here is oh this is kind of 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:34.000 cool why does it do that okay well it has two fire wire 800 ports why does it 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:39.959 do that oh can you can you daisy chain firewire 800 that's kind of cool okay so 00:02:36.239 --> 00:02:42.680 it has power in fire wire as well as USB 00:02:39.959 --> 00:02:48.800 2 so you can use it on a PC performance will just kind of uh bite compared to 00:02:45.200 --> 00:02:50.480 using usb3 or fire wire 800 so the drive 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:53.760 is pretty bog standard okay so youve got your ventilation at the top it looks 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:57.480 pretty slick it has a soft touch feel that's another difference between the 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:01.280 Apple skew and the PC skew that we saw before um that one had more of a shiny 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:05.120 finish to it whereas this one is a more of a matte finish um in terms of 00:03:03.239 --> 00:03:08.959 ventilation you've also got ventilation at the back so passive air flow is going 00:03:07.200 --> 00:03:12.840 to kind of come up through here float up through the top I mean drives run so 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:17.360 cool these days especially seagate's latest ones using the one tbyte platters 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:20.840 so this is a 2 tab Drive which means there's only two platters in there um it 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:25.799 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 00:03:24.040 --> 00:03:29.360 so you don't have to worry too much about the heat just getting contained in 00:03:27.440 --> 00:03:33.280 there now what I love about seates drives originally I was sort of this was 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:38.319 a bit of a head scratcher for me because they released this drive and the sales 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:44.000 pitch as far as I could tell was like you buy a drive and then you like it 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:47.360 doesn't have an interface on it and you like the interface chipset in the cable 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:51.280 and you plug it in and then you have whatever interface you want now that 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:57.159 it's sort of more mature and they have a lot more products as part of the ecosystem it totally makes sense to me 00:03:54.239 --> 00:04:01.120 now so instead of building expensive enclosures that have a bunch of 00:03:58.480 --> 00:04:04.840 different chipsets in them seate builds a less expensive enclosure that has no 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:10.560 logic in it whatsoever it's just an enclosure with a SATA interface at the 00:04:07.040 --> 00:04:13.120 back no problem then they actually put 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:16.440 the logic that you need into a cable or a docking station or whatever else so 00:04:14.799 --> 00:04:21.639 the fire wire chips set and the power is all done in here not in here this is 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:27.360 just a drive that is you know nice and compatible and whatnot so this is one of 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:30.680 their last generation notebook uh like 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:33.000 portable drives so that's USB 3 in fact 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:36.440 if this you know Drive in here could be powered by this I could actually just do 00:04:34.880 --> 00:04:42.160 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 00:04:40.400 --> 00:04:45.360 this requires a drive that's low power enough to be powered by a USB port it 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:49.320 probably makes sense that they don't let me do that because it would just be bad 00:04:47.440 --> 00:04:54.039 try to draw too much power from the USB port and then no one would be happy okay 00:04:51.880 --> 00:04:58.639 so this goes on here now not only this but you can actually take this drive and 00:04:55.800 --> 00:05:01.960 you can swap it onto a variety of other different docks whether they USB 3 at 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:05.199 the back or whether you have like the whole big like Thunderbolt one so you 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:08.800 can daisy chain a bunch of Thunderbolt external drives um and another thing 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:13.960 that you can do with them is you can actually just keep one dock next to your computer whether it's Thunderbolt or USB 00:05:12.520 --> 00:05:18.840 3 or whatever else the case may be I'd recommend something pretty high performance if you're going to use it to 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:22.160 actually run applications or or edit photos or video off of but what's cool 00:05:20.880 --> 00:05:25.880 about it is you can actually just kind of leave it there and then you can use 00:05:23.919 --> 00:05:29.039 these these drives more as like cassettes so you go and you keep a bunch 00:05:27.479 --> 00:05:33.240 on your bookshelf you label them with whatever you know data happens to be on 00:05:31.400 --> 00:05:37.280 them you know like you know my private Video Collection or whatever else the 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:41.080 case may be and then you just go and plug in whichever one you happen to need 00:05:38.919 --> 00:05:44.680 at a given time and you're good to go you just when you're done you unplug it 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:48.960 and put it somewhere safe and then no big problems can occur so I think that 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:52.720 pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the seate 00:05:50.479 --> 00:05:58.039 Backup Plus for mac and don't forget to subscribe C's Tech tips for unboxings 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:58.039 reviews and other computer videos