So today's unboxing is a pretty unique product. I've never seen anything like
this. It involves five boxes for one
thing. And this is the Seagate Free Agent Gooflex
ultra portable drive. Now when this was first explained to me, um it was
basically said that it's a an external
hard drive that doesn't come with any cables. And I went, well, that's not
really very innovative, is it? But it's actually a little bit different from
that. What it is is it's an external hard drive that doesn't have an
interface. So, it actually has a modular interface and the bridge chip and cable
is all part of one adapter. So, here why
don't we take the ESAT one for example and let's open this up really quick. So,
oh, I sure wish I had a knife today, but
I appear to not have one. So, what I'll be doing is I'll just be kind of like
shredding the boxes open because that is how I roll. So, let's just open that up.
There we go. So, this is the ESATA one, and it's advertised right here as up to
six times faster than USB 2. So, this is for Glex and Goflex Pro ultra portable
drives. Okay. So, right here, this is what it looks like. This is a powered
ESATA port, I believe. Yep. This is a powered ESATA port. So, as long as you
have powered ESATA, then all you do is you plug this into the back of the
drive. So, it's got a SATA interface right there. Plugs in, clips in with the
clips right here. And then you've got an ESATA cable and that's it. So the whole
thing is is all attached as one unit rather than having a hard drive
enclosure and then a bunch of interfaces on the back that you plug cables into.
So this way you'll never lose the cable, I guess, is one benefit. Okay, so why
don't we do the next one? This is USB 3.0. So this is a USB 3.0 to SATA
adapter and bridge chip. So the chip is
actually inside here. So, it's inside the bottom of this and then you just
plug in your SATA and then it goes right to a USB 3 port. Now, USB 3 actually
provides a substantial amount more power than USB 2 did. So, it should be no
problem to power a 2 and 1/2 in drive off a USB 3 port. I believe it's what is
it? I think it's three times the power of USB 2, although I could be wrong. I
could be mistaken. The next one we have is the USB 3.0 kit. So, what makes it a
kit? It's an upgrade cable kit. includes everything you need to upgrade your
laptop to USB 3. So, this is not only
the H. Okay, why don't we see what this is? So, first of all, you've got the
same cable we had last time. So, you got a USB 3 end there, and then you have a
SATA interface here, both power and data. And then in the back, you have a
manual. You know, they probably all come with manuals. These talk about your warranty. It's in about 25 different
languages. Then you've got a quick start guide. Okay. So, there's an express card
in here somewhere. Where is it? Oh, here it is. So, in the back of the plastic
tray, there's an express card for your laptop.
So, you can upgrade your laptop to USB 3.0 and then you can plug it in.
Oh, okay. This is interesting. Okay, so the laptop will actually need external
power from a USB port and then you will
use that as well as the power coming
from the Express Card port. So you plug Okay, here here's how this works. You
plug this in here. You get one USB 3 port. This plugs into a USB 2 port. So
you're taking power here and you're taking power here. And that's what's going to run that port. So that would be
a good one if your laptop does not already support USB3, which most of them
out there do not right now. So then last
but not least for interfaces, we have FireWire 800. And I actually don't know
if FireWire 800 provides um decent
power, but they're advertising FireWire 800 as up to two times faster than USB
2.0. And it looks like they've managed to find a way to make FireWire 800
deliver power for the drive because I don't see any external power adapter.
All right, there we finally did it. We unboxed all of the different
adapters that you can have. Yeah, see I
dropped one. So, they all are identical on this end. They are all just SATA
power, SATA data. And then at the other end, we have a couple USB 3.0. We've got
an ESATA, and we have a FireWire 800. So, these are all much faster than USB
2.0. But that doesn't mean that if you buy the Gooflex that you're just um
stuck with no way to plug it in. It actually comes with a USB 2.0 adapter.
So, that means you can buy it for the price of a regular USB 2.0 no drive, but
if you have higherend hardware that allows you to take advantage of uh
faster transfer speeds, then you just plug it in. So, this is a 1 TBTE drive.
Actually, you know what? Let's spend a little bit of time on this. So, it's USB
3.0 upgradeable. They're calling it the world's most upgradable hard drive. It
comes with easy backup software as well as secure data encryption.
Ultra portable. It's 1 TBTE USB 2.0. It's plug-and-play. Inside the box,
you've got the GOX ultra portable drive backup with encryption software
preloaded NTFS driver for Mac preloaded on the drive. You have the USB 2.0
interface adapter as well as an 18-in USB 2.0 cable, a quick start guide, and
a 2-year limited warranty. Uh, I think
that pretty much covers everything here. Upgrades your digital life, add-on
accessories sold separately. Okay. Okay. So, let's get it open then
and have a look at what is inside.
So, this is the Free Agent Gorlex. I
don't think No, this isn't the Pro one. So, I don't actually know what the
difference is between the Pro one and the not Pro one. And apparently, oh, I
thought the cameraman was reaching for a snack there, but it turns out that that
is not what is going on. Okay, so it
comes wrapped in plastic and it's very, very shiny. So that's uh a shiny
enclosure. So what I'm guessing, and this is a pretty safe guess, is that
there are actually two 2 and 1/2 in drives inside here. Two 500 gig drives.
And that's what gives you the 1 TBTE capacity. You got a Seagate logo here.
And then the sides are just kind of a standard uh shiny plastic. And then on
the bottom, it's matte. So that way when you actually put it down on the desk,
which is how you're likely going to use it, you're not going to scratch it up
too bad. as long as you're careful to um protect the top, which is probably
pretty easy to scratch and a bit of a fingerprint magnet, but what can you
really do? So, here we are. Here's our USB 2.0
interface cable. And this is going to show us how to plug in the modular
interface cable. So, just take the plastic covering off here so that I can
show it to you in its shiny plastic glory. It's actually feels quite well
built. It's quite um like it feels solid
without feeling overly heavy and yeah,
it doesn't move around or anything. So, that's a good sign. So, you just plug that in like that and then it looks like
that. There's your USB 2.0 Oh, that's interesting. Hold on. Oh, that's weird.
None of the other ones um actually have a removable cable, but the USB 2.0 one
does. So, there you go. For whatever reason, uh let me just double check
that. Yeah, none of the other ones have that, but this one does. So, why don't
we just sort of plug it in and see if it works.
Plug it into my computer here. Take it one step further than I normally do in
an unboxing. Put that on the ground.
There we go. It works. Excellent. So,
now that I have absolutely no room on my desk to move my mouse, I will attempt to
use my computer. So, it comes with a bunch of stuff on it. It comes with a
USB 3.0 PC card adapter driver folder.
It comes with a Seagate folder, which is registration as well as the Seagate
dashboard. And then it also has a setup,
which is may or may not be for Mac because there's a Mac installer. DMG and
I don't know how to install stuff on a Mac. I forgive me please. And then
there's also Goflex. So, that's just an icon. So, why don't we run setup and see
what happens? Feel free to tune out at any time. The unboxing is over. Thank you for watching my unboxing. Don't
forget to subscribe and all that good stuff. But then um beyond that, I guess
we can also register our product or we can not do that. Uh never register this
drive. And then oh okay, it wants to find Seagate dashboard.exe.
Okay. So, what I think I've managed to do is screw it up already within about 2
seconds of plugging it into my computer, which is a big part of the reason I
often do not try to use the product on camera because usually I screw it up
and Okay, I plugged it back in. So, we're going to go back into the Seagate
folder and we're going to install the Seagate dashboard this time in English,
which is good. I live in the United States, sure, close enough. Okay, so
here's the Mimo instant backup. Simple 60-cond backup and then Oh, you can
install the instant backup which comes with it or you can install the premium
backup trial. So, free trial software.
Okay, install. Sure. Doesn't take very long to set up by the
look of things. My cat really likes this drive though. You can see that he's
decided that it is his to lord over here
because it's shiny. And oh, he also likes the plastic.
Yeah, he wants to fight it.
There you go. Okay. And it's not done installing yet. So, my distraction has
completely failed.
Oh, now he's attacking it some more. You
know what? Forget it. This is really boring. So, you install the software and
then you use the drive. Or you don't bother installing the software and you just use the drive. Thank you for
checking out my unboxing and attempt at using the product. And don't forget to
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