$1400 External Drive and Mirror from Seagate! - CES 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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so here we are in the Seagate Suite with three tiers of products although only
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one of them is going to make me cry let's find out why so we'll start as
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video description to learn more about Squarespace as if you don't already know everything about them already it starts
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right here with the Backup Plus ultra slim which as you you imagine it if
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folks out there might be able to imagine is ultra slim so it's a 7mm Drive inside
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a 9.6 mm plastic enclosure it's got a standard USB 3 mini B that sort of goofy
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dual connector thing on the back and other than the fact that it comes with a
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couple hundred gigs of cloud storage is not really that different from other
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small slim external drives that seate has done in the past it's available in
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one and two terab capacities and has got kind of this like honeycomb design that
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I'm sure you know someone at Seagate worked really hard on and then was like
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super upset when Seagate was like well we're going to do a more Premium One
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it's going to have a metal enclosure but we're going to turn to uh Porsche to
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design this so you know Johnny from Johnny from industrial design you can
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just kind of maybe take like a couple month leave of absence we're going to
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have someone else work on this one but the good news is that Porsche Design
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actually did do a pretty nice job of it it's an all aluminum ID it's got kind of
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that beveled Edge thing going on which I guess if you're into the looks of
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products is kind of cool there's a relatively thin one and there's also
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available in a 4 TB capacity a much thicker one but if you're like me and
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you're all into like specs and megabytes and connectors then the real cool stuff
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is actually on the back where it's got a USB type-c connector and this is man
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these standards have gotten confusing 3.1 gen 1 so that's 5 gigabit that's
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like what we used to call USB 3.0 but for some reason they're just want to
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make all of our heads explode so thanks for that there's also a desktop version
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of this one available on 4 five and 8 tabt also same thing super speed USB spe
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3.1 gen one Etc and this one has
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external power a to power the drive and B this is cool you can power up and
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charge your MacBook with it if you connect via that single connector that
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apple in their Infinite Wisdom put on the MacBook Retina which leads us to the
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one that makes me cry a little bit and there's different kinds of Tears
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associated with this as well although this is definitely the top tier product
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so they turned back to Neil pton to
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design this very mirror like what
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they're calling the Chom because that is how to achieve true
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pretentiousness to put an aent A on the
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end of a word that would have otherwise worked simply fine so the Chrome a is
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actually a solid state based Drive even though it's in a 3 and 1 half inch drive
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like looking enclosure size it's got
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this like sick magnetic base like check this out like it it's like stuck it's like
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freaking magnets right how do they work there you go so it's got this magnetic
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base that it like locks onto oh get
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off which it like re like really goes on to this one uses USB 3.1 Gen 2 or
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whatever anyway 10 gigabit per second connectivity through a type-c connector
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also has external power and there's a lot of cool stuff under the hood here it uses two m.2 ssds inside for a total
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capacity of 1 tbte and you're kind of sitting here going well on a second like
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it looks like a hard drive it's got Seagate on the outside of the bo well l
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c actually Seagate owns L I should have probably clarified that why does it have
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an SSD inside well my friends it's for performance this puppy is capable of 1
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Gigabyte per second read speeds over
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that typ c connector pretty freaking amazing right when can I sign up you
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probably won't unless you're the same type of customer that's heading over to
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the uh Sennheiser Booth to pre-order the $50,000 orus because this my friends is
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a $1,300 external hard drive except that
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it's an SSD but you know whatever we're not going to we're not going to nitpick
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these little details yes my friends it is not cheap but it is beautiful and the
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reality of it is is that while the the tears I cry over the performance are
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tears of joy the and the tears I cry over the price are tears of I can't
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afford one what I do like about this is
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at at least seate through the ly brand
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has the coonies to say okay we're going to build a premium product and we are
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going to price it like a premium product and sure you can still buy a plastic
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hard drive but you also don't have to you know if your desk costs as much as
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someone else's car in your office you can put this on it and you can feel like
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a big shot I know I would so thanks for
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