Seagate Wireless Plus Mobile Expansion Storage Unboxing
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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drives aren't really allowed to just be a hard drive anymore it seems this is
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the Wireless Plus from Seagate and yeah it's an external hard drive and I mean I
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guess that yeah still makes it a hard drive comes with a three-year warranty
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just like Seagate drives tend to come with has a fully recyclable package with
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a QR code on it so that's very exciting as well fully recyclable very very cool
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and we're just going to open it up before we actually tell you anything about the Wireless Plus so the first
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thing that we can tell you once it's open if I could get it open and I've
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ruined the package that's okay is that it's kind of similar except more
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advanced to this one that is the glex
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satellite The goflex Branding has been abandoned but the concept of taking your
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media with you wherever you want to go has not been abandoned so this is the
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allnew Wireless Plus it has a more sort
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of modern looking industrial design so instead of those rounded Corners it has
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sort of a sharper top and bottom to it there you go there's holding up the
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older drive just for comparison there it has a bit of a different color scheme
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going on to it so it's sort of a a textured looking uh gray that looks very
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industrial has a bit of a different feel to it it's not so glossy so it's not
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going to get all finger printy and ugly as quickly as the older one did the
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bottom is soft touch which I love the bottom of the old one was not soft touch
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So Soft Touch which I love there's your power in all right there's the front of
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the drive there's the other side of the drive there's your power button which is
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actually located pretty similarly to the old one in fact it's yeah Power ends in
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the same place as well although the plug is different and then the bottom start
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out here this is the new unit soft touch feel as well as four little rubber feet
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so that's not going to go anywhere and
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that's pretty much it for the physicality of it there's an indicator for wireless which brings us to why it's
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called the Wireless Plus as well as charging and in terms of other
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accessories you've got a quick start guide you've got a not called glex cable
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apparently anymore but you've got one of their sort of
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flexible interface cables there you go so that plugs into the drive like that
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the particular one that's included is USB 3 although you could plug in
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different ones if you wanted to access it via fire wire or um I mean eSATA or
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anything else that might actually matter USB 3 is going to be the most important
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one though it could even use Thunderbolt if you wanted it also comes with a USB
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to power adapter so you don't have to plug it into a computer just to power it
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and finally a wall wart that allows you to not plug it into a computer just to
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charge it so let's talk about what makes it special it is a wireless drive so you
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can store up to it's a one tbte drive for this particular model here so you
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could store up to 500 HD videos on it which is kind of cool so you can take
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that around with you has a 10-hour battery life it comes with seates own
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completely upgraded app and the one for
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the uh see I keep forgetting what it's called the one for the glex satellite
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was actually not bad but the Wireless Plus adds a different form of UI so it
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allows you to not only Browse by folder structure but also to browse with media
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thumbnails and things like that it also adds uploading so now you can back up
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full-size pictures or videos or whatever else from your iOS Android or Kindle
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Fire device this is not either of any of those things this is a Windows device
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but there you go uh so you can instead of you know being forced to down sample
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something when you email it to yourself uh you can connect up to three devices
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to it at a time streaming in HD or up to eight devices at a time if you're just
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looking at photos or or browsing it or doing whatever else it is airPlay
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compatible which I personally think is one of the coolest things about it
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because if you have an Apple TV or whatever else you can actually beam
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things to your big screen using this little guy and it is DLNA compliant as
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well so we're actually going to have some more coverage of this on the tech
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quickie Channel upcoming where we sort of dive into it a bit more in depth but
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I think that pretty much wraps it up for our unboxing thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the
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