Gadgetory

so here we are in the Seagate suite with three tiers of products although only one of them is going to make me cry let's find out why so we'll start as always with a huge shout out to Squarespace for allowing us to be here at CES 2016 check out the link in the video description to learn more about Squarespace as if you don't already know everything about them already it starts right here with the backup plus ultra slim which as you you imagine it if folks out there might be able to imagine is ultra slim so it's a seven millimeter drive inside a 9.6 millimeter plastic enclosure it's got a standard USB 3 mini be that sort of goofy dual connector thing on the back and other than the fact that it comes with a couple hundred gigs of cloud storage is not really that different from other small slim external drives that Seagate has done in the past it's available in one and two terabyte capacities and has got kind of this like honeycomb design that I'm sure you know someone at Seagate worked really hard on and then was like super upset when Seagate was like well we're gonna do a more premium one it's gonna have a metal enclosure but we're gonna turn to Porsche to design this so you know Johnny from Johnny from industrial design you can just kind of maybe take like a couple month leave of absence we can have someone else work on this one but the good news is that Porsche design actually did do a pretty nice job of it it's an all aluminum ID it's got kind of that beveled edge thing going on which I guess if you're into the looks of products is kind of cool there's a relatively thin one and there's also available on a four terabyte capacity a much thicker one but if you're like me and you're all in tooling specs in megabytes and connectors then the real cool stuff is actually on the back where it's got a USB type-c connector and this is man these standards have gotten confusing 3.1 Gen 1 so that's five gigabit that's like what we used to call USB 3.0 but for some reason they're just want to make all of our heads explode so thanks for that there's also a desktop version of this one available on 4 5 and 8 terabytes also same thing super speed USB 3.1 gen2 etcetera and this one has external power a to power the drive and B this is cool you can power up and charge your MacBook with it if you connect via that a single connector that Apple in their infinite wisdom put on Macbook retina which leads us to the one that makes me cry a little bit and there's different kinds of tears associated with this as well although this is definitely the top tier product so they turn back to anneal Paulton to design this very mirror like what they're calling the chrome a because that is how to achieve true pretentiousness to put an axial a goo on the end of a word that would have otherwise worked simply fine so the chroma is actually a solid state based drive even though it's in a three and a half inch drive like looking enclosure size it's got this like sick magnetic base like check this out like it it's like stuck there you go so it's got this magnetic base that it like locks on to like really goes on to this one uses USB 3.1 gen2 or whatever - anyway ten gigabit per second connectivity through a type-c connector also has external power and there's a lot of cool stuff under the hood here it uses two MDOT to SSDs inside for a total capacity of one terabyte and you're kind of sitting here going well on a second like it looks like a hard drive it's got Seagate on the outside of the blob well let's see actually Seagate owns let's see I should have probably clarified that why does it have an SSD inside well my friends it's for performance this puppy is capable of 1 gigabyte per second read speeds over that type-c connector pretty freakin amazing right when can I sign up you probably won't unless you're the same type of customer that's heading over to the sennheiser booth to preorder the $50,000 Orpheus because this my friends is a $1,300 external hard drive except that it's an SSD but you know whatever we're not gonna we're not going to nitpick these little details yes my friends it is not cheap but it is beautiful and the reality of it is is that while the the tears I cry over the performance are tears of joy and the tears I cry over the price are tears if I can't afford one what I do like about this is that we at least Seagate through the Lisi brand has the cojones to say okay we're gonna build a premium product and we are gonna price it like a premium product and sure you can still buy a plastic hard drive but you also don't have to you know if your desk costs as much as someone else's car in your office you can put this on it and you can feel like a big shot I know I would so thanks for watching guys don't miss any of our CES 2016 coverage by being subscribed to Linus tech tips and I want to take this opportunity to give a huge shout out to Squarespace for allowing us to be here at the show remember you're building a website whether it's a blog portfolio an online store whatever else the case may be head over to squarespace.com slash Linus linked in the video description you use offer code Linus to save 10% and start building it beautiful today