HP SimpleSave Desktop USB External Hard Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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today we're going to be having a look at the HP simple save external hard drive
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it offers instant handsfree backup handsfree okay it offers extra
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storage it functions on USB 2.0 and this one in particular happens to be a 1 TB
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drive just plug it in that's the whole
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instructions backup will automatically start in 25 seconds your computer is now
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backed up yes it's that easy
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wow that's cool all right so system requirements are USB port XP Vistar
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Windows 7 and what's inside is well we'll see
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that in a moment and then here it says stores up to 120 hours of HD video
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25,000 MP3s or 2,000 or 25
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25 250,000 MP3s or 200,000 jpegs and
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let's get this thing opened up this is a bit of a cheating unboxing it is oh no
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it is sealed Oh I thought this one wasn't sealed oh there you go it's just
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the box is kind of beat up but it is sealed there we go now we know we learn
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something every day so let's have a look at what we've
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got in terms of accessories first and then we will have a look at the simple
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save unit itself so the first thing we find is a
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simple save desktop all right this is a bit of a
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user's guide it's quite
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simple step one plug in step two
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profit there you
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are wow they really are stressing the whole Simplicity thing so you've got
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your standard uh uh AC to DC adapter as
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well as a USB cable and they've even got like two different Ms on it you know USB
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a to mini B just in case you were having trouble figuring out what goes where it
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should be quite apparent which end goes into what if you want to hook up the
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simple save even for like your grandma or you know whoever else you're trying
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to help back up their stuff just give
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them one of these and uh should take care of itself by the look of things all
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right it's got a nice glossy black finish on it which is just gorgeous and
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a total fingerprint magnet you can see how incredibly glossy that is like you
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can actually see me completely looking
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through my camera with my chest tripod mounted here all right at the front we
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find more glossy black an HP logo and a little simple save and then on the other
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side we find more glossy black now this is impressive look at that
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hey HP Engineers have done it again they
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have invented a glossy black finish that is okay well we've got a little bit of
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fingerprint this going on there but that's pretty darn good for like
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something this shiny look at that very impressive you know what that might be
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more impressive than their software and the storage and the packaging and
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everything else combined a glossy black product that does not look horrible as
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soon as you touch it terrific on the back it's simple USB
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port power port that's it that's the whole thing there's no
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buttons this is like the anti- uh the anti PC Product it's so simple a Mac
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User could use it there's no buttons there's just it just
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works cool well thank you for checking out my unboxing of the HP simple save it
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offers aut I handsfree backup I see what they mean by handsfree like look at this
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you don't even have to touch it there's no button so we've gone from one touch
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to handsfree you just kind of wave at
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it and the software Works its magic