Seagate Backup Plus Portable External Hard Drive for PC Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of the Seagate Backup Plus portable drive it is a
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portable hard drive which means it uses a notebook drive as opposed to a desktop
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drive in an enclosure all right 2 and 1/2 in not 3 and 1/2 in Easy portable
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backup for your Digital Life for PC or Mac now they do have a specific Max q
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but the only real difference seems to be included cables as well as the
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formatting of the drive out of the box you can actually reformat it to whatever
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you need whichever one you buy so don't stress too much about whether you bought
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the PC or the Mac edition for your grandson or granddaughter and you're not
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sure what kind of a fangled computer they actually have don't stress out
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about that just go ahead get the external hard drive and they can figure out the rest on their own for a pretty
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cool reason and I'll get into that later aha right there upgradeable interface
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even if you buy them totally the wrong thing with totally the wrong interface
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they don't actually have to buy a whole new drive to replace it they can just just get a new interface cable plug it
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in and they're Off to the Races social media backup yes what makes this a
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Backup Plus the fact that it already
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with the current Seagate software is capable not only of backing up things
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that are on your computer but also saving photos from Facebook to your
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drive so a lot of the time people these days are walking around with their
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smartphones and they're all like taking pictures of stuff this is a
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simulation um taking pictures of stuff and they're like oh yeah I'm going to
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upload these to Facebook and so people can like them and uh so what happens a
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lot of the time is those pictures if you don't religiously back up your phone
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might never even end up on a computer so how do you back them up what if Facebook
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at some point goes IPO in their stock tanks and then they disappear um maybe
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they'll take all your pictures with them I'm just kidding that's probably not going to happen but if it does you can
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back up all your Facebook photos to this drive with an easy interface so that is
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pretty handy easily back up all of your other stuff locally and to the cloud
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helps you protect all of that good stuff and flexible for all your needs Mac or
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PC I think we've harped on that enough it's also very slim so let's go ahead
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and open it up you got your uh limited warranty there is a
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warranty on this
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guy two years there you go twoe limited
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warranty I wonder what an unlimited warranty would be someone who knows what
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an unlimited warranty would be should like post under the com comments and
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tell us about an unlimited warranty oh slick is actually pointing at something
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that has an unlimited warranty snap on sorry about that guys battery are rather
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battery uh memory card was full so Snap-on tools have an unlimited warranty
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I could literally take this thing and like break it over the side of the table
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and take it to them and they would give me a new one so there that is an unlimited warranty he's right all right
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what do we got in terms of cables included we have a usb3 cable excellent
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what else we got going on here well we have an external drive dve so this is a
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500 gig Drive however it is available in a variety of capacities and we're going
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to go ahead and remove the plastic wrap that is so hard to
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remove there we go all right so we got like a matte finish going on on the
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bottom we got like a shiny finish going on on the side we got a brushed finish
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going on on the top which looks Just Deadly looks awesome can you see how
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awesome it looks slick says no there we
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go that is what it looks like I'm looking at the camera over his shoulder
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okay this is what I mean about easy upgrade interfaces so this is just a
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SATA interface back here very cool so I am personally a huge fan of their glex I
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don't know if they're even are they even calling it that on this drive I don't
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think they're even calling it that but this is what it was originally called was glex and glex was just um swappable
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modular interfaces so you go ahead the chipset actually resides in here so you
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go ahead and just click that in there now it's a usb3 drive because you've got
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a usb3 TSA chipset in there there you go
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take this off throw something else on there maybe you got EA maybe you got
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fire wire it doesn't matter just clip that on and you're good to go so that is
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my unboxing of the Backup Plus Slim drive from Seagate actually here let's
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check out how slim it is so I have a like a third party external hard drive
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going on over here and I thought this one was pretty
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slim and pretty Sleek so uh this is a zman one let's go ahead and have a look
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so those are about the same very cool so
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