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as well as hyperx so seate SL Le demo
might seem like an odd place to kick off our CES coverage but they've got some
stuff inside that looks pretty cool it all starts here though with their living
logo thing actually that's exactly what they call it sweet I got it right so a
living logo is their like patented idea of having their their new corporate logo
and I'm G to try and do this there we go there it is as like a a
living visualization of the data from a
particular feed let's say Instagram Twitter New York Times you punch it to
change ah I just changed over to Twitter so if I tweet a picture of my bum in
theory I can get it to show up on that screen if I use the right hashtag but
they've asked me very nicely not to do that so Cates marketing for this is G I
re it seven out of seven I think or something along those lines it would
have sounded a lot better if this was an 8 mm thick drive but it is unfortunately
7 mm thick now what they've done to achieve this is they've gone with a 5mm
design drive so that's a 500 GB capacity
and then by using a very unique 1 mil
thick on either side steel enclosure
they've managed to achieve the same drop rating resistance and all that stuff
they told me I could drop it I mean I'm sure you wouldn't want to do that on a
drive anymore than you absolutely have to as their regular drives which are
typically anywhere from twice as thick or even more what's really cool is that
for contrast they've actually got right next to it so here's the 5mm drive that
powers this bad boy this is a 35 year old drive that is 5 megabytes
that is obviously a lot thicker than 5
mm thick it's powered by a standard four
pin Molex goes to show you that power connector has been around for a while
but other than that this thing is completely alien look technology to me
and this was manufactured for IBM way back 35 years ago I mean some of this
stuff is hand done there's hand soldered
wires on the bottom of this drive pretty freaking cool I geeked out over this one
over here we've got some consumer and prosumer stuff so first up is the
personal cloud which is available in a 1bay or 2ay configuration and the
objective here is something that I've seen attempted many times but rarely
with much success so basically the idea is you've got either one or two drives
the Dual drive one will automatically be configured in raid one for your
protection and what it'll do is it'll allow you to select folders and have
those ones back up to a cloud-based storage it'll allow you to stream to
something like a Roku for example or a chomecast so you can manage all your
media on your TV in that regard and the
last one is that it actually backs up all of your PCS and even things like
phones and thumb drives if you configure it all within their app of course I
haven't tested any of this and maybe seate will uh give us a chance to check
it out because it sounds pretty good the other consumer thing that we've got here
is an update to their previous generation wireless streaming drives
that's not so much U newer and faster and more amazing but definitely more
affordable so this is simply named the Seagate Wireless and uh Lord forbid they
ever release anything else that's ever Wireless ever again because that's going to get really confusing but pretty much
it streams to three devices it's got 500 gigs of storage and it's got a very
friendly look to it lasts for about 6 to8 hours on battery according to the
folks here now the next one we've got is actually more of a product update than
strictly speaking a whole new idea the ly rugged raid which is more of an
update to their previous single Drive product and I guess I kind of gave away
what exactly they changed about it this is a dual Drive Rugged Drive version
it's not exactly strictly speaking consumer this is more for your prosumers
but it's got a couple of cool features so aside from having two hard drives
inside it's got Thunderbolt or USB 3 and
Thunderbolt requires no auxiliary power it is completely bus powered in order to
run it off a Thunderbolt although for USB 3 you will need an additional power
adapter and it's got a hardware RAID controller inside which means you can
configure it in raid zero or Raid one although I'd say if you're so concerned
about your data that you're buying like you know an inch and a half thick rubber
enclosure for it you should probably be running raid one so it stays nice and
safe and here's the star of the show this is the L mirror and it kind of
breaks the mold a little bit when I say mirror I don't mean redundancy and it's
not particularly thin and it's not particularly rugged like the other stuff
they were showing off this one is all about style so it's not targeted at me
and I wouldn't be able to with a straight face say thanks to the $600
that L slipped into my back pocket I
endorse this drive for me personally this is not going to be the ticket
because I'm more about looking at the cost per dollar part of the equation as
opposed to the does this thing look amazing on my desk even the Box itself
like opens in this unique way so it's
not really targeted at me because it's a $280 1 tab drive but what it is is it
something that feels a little bit different than a typical hard drive
that's what they were going for and I'd say mission accomplished you guys but
one thing I certainly appreciate is that even though it's a shiny piece of
technology they've got Gorilla Glass on so it should be slightly more
fingerprint resistant than most shiny things although that doesn't mean that
they don't include a cleaning cloth in the box and doesn't mean they don't want to have one here handy at the kiosk to
keep these things all shined up so my
lovely assistant here from ly has been showing us around to all the you know be
drives and external drives and uh suddenly I I blurt it out well can you
show me your racks and she kind of
goes what I'm sorry if I made you really
uncomfortable because what I actually meant was these racks yes over here this
is the stuff that I really geek out over they've got the business storage forb
rack mount Nas so this is I mean it's pretty self-explanatory I told them they
should have an easier name for it they should call it like the the Tiger Claw or something like that but basically
it's uh a forb business Nas and they've got one down here that I personally am
interested in for the first time as far as anything Thunderbolt goes because I'm
more of a of a 10 gigabit Ethernet kind of guy but this right here is the Lei 8
big rack Thunderbolt 2 thing so basically what you can do is it's eight
drives per one U you go ahead and rack
mount these and then you can actually daisy chain up to six of them together
which is going to give you 48 drives potentially on a single pooled
array and then what you can actually do is use a little Mac Mini as a gigabit
Ethernet uh Network share for it so it's not just limited to Thunderbolt access
you can also actually share it over the network it's still not quite what I'd
want I would like to see every shared
resource have 10 GB connectivity to every computer but it is a huge step in
the right direction and if you're looking for something that is just Wicked Crazy Stupid Fast this is pretty
much it they had files copying on here at 3 gigabytes per second which is going
to be enough not just for an individual user not just five users but you could
run many many users off an array like that at a time so I think that pretty
much WS it up for Seagate and ly thank you very much for being a good sport
about that that whole business there I'm very sorry thanks for coming Lin us so I
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