 The ArcMidi R2 by Fractal Design features massive airflow and highly flexible liquid cooling support. Click now to learn more. External hard drives are pretty difficult to get excited about these days, especially with SSDs being so much faster and more rugged, so you can like chuck them around and all that stuff. But is there still a place for the hard drive? Well, it depends who you ask. ADATA obviously plays in both the external hard drive and USB storage spaces, and they've also got SSDs as well. So apparently they still think there's a place for the hard drive, and this one right here is pretty unique. So it has a three-year warranty, it uses super speed USB 3, however, that will be bottlenecked by the hard drive itself inside, and it uses the new slim form factor hard drives that are available on the market. So both WD and Seagate have been making a ton of noise about these slimmer form factor drives. So one terabyte drives, or up to one terabyte drives available in a seven mil form factor, and then up to 500 gig drives available in a five mil form factor. So this guy right here, I don't know what drives in there, but it's only 8.9 millimeters thick, which means it's definitely not a nine and a half millimeter drive. It uses a stainless steel enclosure, so you can actually see it's got a beautiful brushed finish, and in addition to the mirror finish that has the ADATA HE720 logo in the middle of it, then we can go ahead and flip it over. It actually has some weight to it, which I don't mind for a product like this, where it makes it feel more quality as opposed to making it feel heavy. It's not the kind of thing that you'll be carrying around, you know, like a phone, like, hey, you know, oh, my arms sure getting tired from holding this up, and it's actually not that much heavier than a smartphone anyway. I love metal finishes. We're going to go ahead and pop out my HTC One so we can do a quick size comparison, just to give you guys some idea how slim this is. Again, depending who you ask, the hard drive is very much not dead, and they are determined to keep updating it for modern devices. So there you go, there's that size comparison. At the back, you find the one touch backup button, as well as the USB 3 interface, and that is pretty much all there is to say about it physically, so I guess it comes down to software. So they include one touch backup software. They also include their OS2Go utility, which is, I mean, honestly, it's nothing that special. All it does is it takes an operating system that you have on a disk, and it converts it to this drive so you can install it over USB. Okay, you can do it manually, but okay, if you don't want to figure out how to do that, it's kind of handy to have that, but they also have their HDD2Go, which allows you to take around some of the settings from your computer, plug it in, and then use it as kind of like a no trace left behind way of using that computer. So it'll bring over your favorites, it'll allow you to sync the desktop, as well as my documents folder, and then once you unplug, all of that goes away with you, so I think that's pretty neat as well. The stainless steel finish has a 9 hardness scratch resistance, so I don't know, I'm kind of tempted to try it out now. So at least if we take something like, let's take like the end of a pen here. See if we can, oh yeah, we can scratch it, it's not that bad. Accessory wise, it includes a simple USB 3A to micro connector as well. I'm not a big fan of micro connectors, but I understand why on a super slim product like this it's been used, as well as a little plastic carrying case so you can, there you go, keep it safe. Mind you, to me you'd have to make a pretty strong argument for taking a nice slim, sexy product that's durable already, and putting a sort of bulky connector, like bulky case on it. Looks really good this way. Thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the AT720 from ADATA. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. Don't forget to like the video if you enjoyed it. Don't forget to comment on the video, let me know what do you think? Is there still a place for hard drives given how much less expensive they are compared to SSDs, or would you be wanting to switch to exclusively SSD or flash based storage moving forward? It should be noted that the finish on here is pretty fingerprint attracting, however, it looks like, see there you go, you guys have a bit of a look at it, however, they seem to wipe off relatively easily, which is something that I would often criticize about other finishes, but they are difficult to clean and this one doesn't seem to have that problem.