Seagate Backup Plus for Mac Mobile External Hard Drive 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 seate Backup Plus for Mac this is a portable
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drive versus their more desktop oriented
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Drive which I also happen to have here now the key difference between the Mac
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SKS and the PC SKS is things like color
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and things like the included cables because PCS are generally going to be
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USB 3 and Mac are generally not going to be USB 3 because apple and their
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Infinite Wisdom doesn't believe in USB 3 although they'll probably change their
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tune now that Intel's integrated it onto their chipsets um you also see so you
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see things like fire wire 800 included instead of uh USB 3 although this one
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looks like it is just USB 2 so in this
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case the uh the Mac edition the Mac edition one gets the shaft because uh it
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just gets a silver housing which I guess will look better with your Mac it is
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time machine compatible although so is so is anything with uh you know storage
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on it and it is macOS compatible but then again so is anything with storage
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on it because it is also Windows compatible and it just comes down to
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what the preconfigured formatting is so time to P social media ah this is cool
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though Backup Plus drives have software that not only allow you to easily back
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up your computer but also your social media so they're mostly focused on
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Facebook right now hence the Facebook logo on the back of the drive you can back up all of the photos that you've
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already uploaded to Facebook once you uh throw your account credentials on here
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so you can make sure that it can actually grab them for you and they're looking at adding support for additional
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social media sites in the future flexible for all your needs Mac users
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increase transfer rate by upgrading to firewire or Thunderbolt adapter which you can get sold separately although
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that Thunderbolt one's probably pretty pricey however if you wanted to get the
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most out of actually running applications directly off the drive or whatever the case may be you probably do
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want to use Thunderbolt versus firewire 800 which is sort of slow quick start
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guide all right and a very Apple looking
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drive going on in here so we got just like a Seagate logo
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ly thing it's kind of silver on the top kind of white on the bottom which is
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about as apple as it gets silver and
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white I mean could it be more Apple if it tried I guess they could put an Apple
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logo on it but Apple might get upset they tend not to really like that if you
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just go and like put an Apple logo on things it's not that I'm saying Seagate would want to put an Apple logo on their
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product I mean Seagate is a well-respected brand I don't know why
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they'd go uh you know putting apple on it that wouldn't help my opinion um
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sorry that was my uh that was my PC Gamer hat that I was wearing there I'm
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taking it off now um so anyway we got a Seagate logo thing going on we got a o
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nice aluminum top so that's something the PC version didn't get um however
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they did get a usb3 chipset so the good thing about all of that though is
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because these are using the seate sort of glex I don't know if they still use
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that I guess USM is the new branding for it but uh whatever it is they use their
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modular interfaces at the back which means it's just a sated Drive in a you
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know plas plastic // aluminum enclosure and then all you have to do if you want
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to use a different interface with it is Source a different interface cable
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whether it's Thunderbolt firewire 800 USB 3 doesn't matter you Source a
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different interface
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module plug it into the drive and now
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this is a stylish looking like brush oh did I say the PC one wasn't metal no
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it's not metal okay stylish brushed looking you know
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black/ silver SL white drop
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that is now USB 3 ready it's that simple guys because all of the logic is
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actually in here not here this is just a drive and I I love this concept because
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it has saved my bacon any number of times when I've gone compared to
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traditional Solutions which were that the enclosure had all the logic built
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into it and then you had whatever interfaces you had if you wanted to have two different interfaces you had to have
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them both you had to have all the logic you had to spend more on your drive in
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order to in order to make sure that you'd be able to plug it into whatever you want well I just have a bunch of
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these cables lying around these days and then if I ever run into a scenario where
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I'm like oh shoot that system doesn't support usb3 but it does have power D
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and I want to get the best performance possible I throw my power D SATA one on
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there plug in my drive and I'm good to go so uh that is that is the solution
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for that and that's why I like it so uh oh yeah look at that this one also has
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like a raised like sexy shiny Seagate logo and this one has just like a flat
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Cate logo this one's like more better shinier and it's oh running out of
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battery too so I think that pretty much covers it anyway so thank you for checking out my unboxing at the Backup
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