Seagate Backup Plus USB3 Desktop Storage Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,150 words · ~5 min read
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welcome to my unboxing of seagate's new Backup Plus desktop drive so this is
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easy backup for your Digital Life for PC and Mac although they do have two
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separate SKS one specifically for PC which happens to be this one and another
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Mac one but the main difference between those is the default formatting of the
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drive as well as the included connector
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so the PC oriented one comes with USB 3
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and the Mac oriented one comes with firewire 800 and USB 2 because right now
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Apple in their infinite wisdom is not supporting the USB 3
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standard on the side we see stuff that we'll see when we open it up on the back
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we see stuff that we can talk about while we're looking at the drive because
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honestly with a drive normally there's not a whole lot to talk about however
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this one is a little bit different so number one it has a fully recyclable
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package which is pretty cool has a 2-year limited warranty okay it
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has him a hard drive inside so this is a
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desktop Edition Drive which means it's not uh not one of their smaller drives
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that uses a 2 and 1/2 in internal drive inside this one uses a 3 and 1/2 in
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internal drive inside an external enclosure so there we go there's the
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drive itself what makes a backup plus a
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Backup Plus well it's good for backing up because
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it's hard drive and it's fast it's got usb3 just
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going to put that right about there okay
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plus is a software feature that cate's been working on it actually will allow
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you to easily back up even files that aren't necessarily on your computer so
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the one the example that they're using here on the packaging while I just sort
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of quickly get this open is Facebook so
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Backup Plus will allow you to quickly and easily back up that content on your
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Facebook so the pictures on your Facebook as well as other social media
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sites now right now the main one that's supported is Facebook however they're
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looking at even adding support for YouTube in the future so Cate is going
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to continue to work on the Backup Plus software so that I mean honestly like
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who even worries about what you do with a photo once you've already uploaded to
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Facebook in fact some of those photos probably never even make it to your
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computer if you don't back up your phone religiously for example then you could
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have photos that you've uploaded directly to Facebook from your phone that never even touched your compter
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computer that would be great if you had something automatically scraping your
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Facebook account and making sure that they're getting saved and uh and stored
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somewhere just in the event that you lose your phone or it gets stolen or
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something goes wrong with it you won't at least lose that media so this is a
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very difficult to remove configuration of putting plastic on the drive that uh
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I'm sort of having bit of a hard time with
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here they come apart so easily okay so the drive itself is
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pretty run-of-the-mill if you've seen a Seagate external hard drive you've
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probably seen one that looks sort of pretty much like this although there is
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something cool about it so if you guys remember their whole golex thing on
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their portable drives you know what I'm going to go grab a glex drive it's okay slick you can go look at that drive for
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a little bit while I go grab one um a
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where is it oh there it is okay so if you guys are familiar with
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their glex drives uh these were their last generation notebook glex driv so
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what's cool about them is they just have a SATA interface on the back very simple
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and then you can buy any variety of different connectors that actually have
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the chipset required for translating between in this case USB 3 and SATA
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built into the cable itself rather than having it built into the drive which
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locks you into a particular standard so seate has taken that concept and
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expanded it to the desktop drives so you can see this is just a SATA drive inside
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nothing complicated about it this is a 2 t Drive although it's compat it's
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available in a variety of formats uh format sizes and this is basically that
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glex piece that actually has the chipset has the logic has the power that goes
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and is routed through here into the this is the power connector this is the data
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connector into the drive itself which is really cool because it allows you to
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basically use these almost like U like VHS tapes to use sort of a a dated
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analogy so you want to Archive things okay you have like your bookshelf full
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of like you know glex units like this you go you label
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them or something you know you put a label on them whatever this happens to be so you go grab whichever is the most
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relevant one you know project that I worked on for okay let's say you're a
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wedding V wedding videographer or something so you put you know projects
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from date X to date Z throw it on there you work on everything right off the
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drive itself usb3 is fast enough to do that although there are more ideal
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Solutions such as this one right here which is also fully compatible uh so
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this is a Thunderbolt talking station
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see Thunderbolt so you can take that and put that on there that's even more ideal
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to work off of but you'll need a Thunderbolt compatible machine so
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basically yeah you just go oh okay you know I want to work on this or I want to
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see this project you want to work directly off the drive whether you're on a notebook or a desktop this kind of
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thing is very very
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handy see let's see how many times I have to
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do this before they just get bored and tune out ah ah oh right ventilation passive
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ventilation in the top active ventil or passive ventilation in the back so this
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won't make any noise and I I missed another plastic piece so thank you for
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checking out my unboxing of the Seagate Backup Plus remember the Plus Part
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besides all the usual features that come with these drives is the fact that you
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can now back up directly from your social media onto an external hard drive