Gadgetory

what's up guys John Retton jerking TechnoBuffalo here flow see that follow me on Twitter you'll know that my Western Digital my book external hard drive that I've been using for years to back up every one of my videos that I've done since I've started completely died on me it won't work on any computer I've even tried taking the harddrive attitude enclosure the thing is just completely shot and it was wrecked and a bit devastated of having lost all my records of every video that I've ever done well I was tweeted that out and the folks at Seagate actually got word of that and sent me over a another brand of hard drive to review and try for you guys this is their free agent Xtreme I'm hoping for much better results and for me better results would be just not dying after a few years so this is the free agent Xtreme in the 1.5 terabyte version guinness running about 200 bucks the sizes they have available ranges from I believe 500 gigs up to 200 gigs ranging in various sizes I'll put a link in the sidebar if you guys wants more information let's go ahead and dig in and Hynek here you see what this looks like and see how hard drives have advanced and as I last picked up my Western Digital in the past I've had pretty good luck with with them but having the hard drive crash was just completely unacceptable I'm especially of having that much valuable information in retrospect I probably should have had more redundant storage and sort of let that serve as a bit of a warning to you guys to make sure that you sufficiently back everything up so let's go ahead and unbox it of course we've got the obligatory don't cut your finger off big knife then slice the plastic at least it's not in a blister pack those blister packs are impossible to open up what comes in a pretty big box you got picture of it on the front little bit of a side profile see what fork it's got in a minute and picture of it on the side so we will dig in I cut some tape first so there is the hard drive it's actually much thinner than some of the other ones that I've checked out in the past I'll compare it to my outgoing dead Western Digital pretty thin for a 1.5 terabyte drives got a bit of a tapered edge to it which is kind of neat let's go ahead and see what ports this one includes so it has two firewire ports a mini USB eSATA power and Kensington lock I've never used eSATA but it seems to be becoming a bit more prevalent you shouldn't even see you SATA ports on some laptops go ahead push it off to the side for just a minute and see what else comes in the box probably cables so we've gone they give you a FireWire 400 cable through standard size power brick nothing that exciting and you have any more cables got little dots to keep the thing from sliding around we've got a stand if you want to keep it vertical got a USB to micro USB and that is about it so let's do a real quick size comparison to my outgoing Drive the one that's dead and lost all my information the Western Digital my book this one here is only a leave a terabyte in size but it's a little bit older you can see that hard drives have definitely shrunk I think that this one is probably two platters this one must be just want to keep it that thin you can see even from the port standpoint what the difference is so the guys were kind of comparing and shopping I have not used a Seagate drive so I can't speak to the reliability but if it works I'll be better off than it was with the Western Digital Drive definitely something to keep in mind if you are looking for a new hard drive the folks at Seagate what we're very nice to send us over so I will give it a review I will try it I'll try transfer rates on firewire I'll even find a computer with eSATA and try that and USB and I will blast it and blast it and blast it back and forth with data and transfers to see how it holds up over probably the course of about two weeks to a month any questions you guys want to see about this let me know I'm John Rhett enger' from TechnoBuffalo and I'll see you the next video bye bye