 Welcome to my unboxing of Seagate's new Backup Plus desktop drives. This is easy backup for your digital life for PC and Mac. Although they do have two separate SKUs, one specifically for PC, which happens to be this one, and another Mac one. But the main difference between those is the default formatting of the drive as well as the included connector. So the PC-oriented one comes with USB 3.0, and the Mac-oriented one comes with Firewire 800 and USB 2.0 because right now Apple, in their infinite wisdom, is not supporting the USB 3.0 standard. On the side we see stuff that we'll see when we open it up. On the back we see stuff that we can talk about while we're looking at the drive because honestly, with a drive, normally there's not a whole lot to talk about. However, this one is a little bit different. So number one, it has a fully recyclable package, which is pretty cool. It has a two-year limited warranty. It has a hard drive inside. So this is a desktop edition drive, which means it's not one of their smaller drives that uses a two and a half inch internal drive inside. This one uses a three and a half inch internal drive inside an external enclosure. So there we go, there's the drive itself. What makes a Backup Plus a Backup Plus? It's good for backing up because it's hard drive. It's fast. It's got USB 3.0. I'm just going to put that right about there. Plus is a software feature that Seagate's been working on. It actually will allow you to easily backup even files that aren't necessarily on your computer. So the one, the example that they're using here on the packaging, while I just sort of quickly get this open, is Facebook. So Backup Plus will allow you to quickly and easily backup the content on your Facebook. So the pictures on your Facebook as well as other social media sites. Now right now the main one that's supported is Facebook. However they're looking at even adding support for YouTube in the future. So Seagate is going to continue to work on the Backup Plus software so that, I mean honestly, who even worries about what you do with a photo once you've already uploaded to Facebook? In fact, some of those photos probably never even make it to your computer. If you don't backup your phone religiously for example, then you could have photos that you've uploaded directly to Facebook from your phone that never even touched your computer. That would be great if you had something automatically scraping your Facebook account and making sure that they're getting saved and stored somewhere just in the event that you lose your phone or it gets stolen or something goes wrong with it. You won't at least lose that media. So this is a very difficult to remove configuration of putting plastic on the drive that I'm sort of having a bit of a hard time with here. They come apart so easily. Okay, so the drive itself is pretty run of the mill. If you've seen a Seagate external hard drive, you've probably seen one that looks sort of pretty much like this, although there is something cool about it. So if you guys remember their whole GoFlex thing on their portable drives, you know what, I'm going to go grab a GoFlex drive. It's okay, so you can go look at that drive for a little bit while I go grab one. Ah, where is it? Oh, there it is. Okay, so if you guys are familiar with their GoFlex drives, these were their last generation notebook GoFlex drives. So what's cool about them is they just have a SATA interface on the back. Very simple. And then you can buy any variety of different connectors that actually have the chipset required for translating between, in this case, USB 3 and SATA built into the cable itself, rather than having it built into the drive, which locks you into a particular standard. So Seagate has taken that concept and expanded it to the desktop drives. So you can see this is just a SATA drive inside. Nothing complicated about it. This is a 2 terabyte drive, although it's available in a variety of format sizes. And this is basically that GoFlex piece that actually has the chipset, has the logic, has the power that goes and is routed through here into the, this is the power connector, this is the data connector into the drive itself, which is really cool because it allows you to basically use these almost like VHS tapes to use sort of a dated analogy. So you want to archive things. Okay. You have like your bookshelf full of like, you know, GoFlex units like this. You go, you label them or something, you know, you put a label on them, whatever this happens to be. So you go grab whichever is the most relevant one, you know, project that I worked on for, okay, let's say you're a wedding videographer or something. So you put, you know, projects from date X to date Z, throw it on there. You work on everything right off the drive itself. USB 3 is fast enough to do that, although there are more ideal solutions such as this one right here, which is also fully compatible. So this is a Thunderbolt docking station. See? Thunderbolt. So you can take that and put that on there. That's even more ideal to work off of, but you'll need a Thunderbolt compatible machine. So basically, yeah, you just go, oh, okay. You know, I want to work on this or I want to see this project. You want to work directly off the drive, whether you're on a notebook or a desktop, this kind of thing is very, very handy. See? Let's see how many times I have to do this before they just get bored and tune out. Ah, ah, oh, great. Ventilation. Passive ventilation in the top, active ventilator, passive ventilation in the back. So this won't make any noise and I missed another plastic piece. So thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Seagate Backup Plus. Remember, the plus part, besides all the usual features that come with these drives, is the fact that you can now backup directly from your social media onto an external hard drive.