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the arc MIDI r2 by fractal design features massive air flow 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 check them around and all that stuff but is there still a place for the hard drive well depends who you ask a data 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 are up to one terabyte drives available in a 7 mil form factor and then up to 500 gig drives available in a 5 mil form factor so this guy right here I don't know what drives in there but it's only eight point nine 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 on it in addition to the mirror finish that has the a data a Qi 720 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 all my arms are getting tired from holding this up and it's actually not that much heavier than a smart phone anyway I love metal finishes we're gonna 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 right 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 OneTouch 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 OneTouch backup software they also include their OS to go 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 over USB ok you can do it manually but ok 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 HDD to go which allows you to take around some of the settings from your computer plug it in and then use it as 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 nine hardness scratch resistance so I don't know I'm kind of tempted to like try it out now so at least if we take something like let's take like the end of a let's take 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 3 a 2 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 87 24 May data 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 there you go you guys had pretty bit of a look at however they seemed to wipe off relatively easily which is something that I would often criticize about other finishes is that they are difficult to clean and this one doesn't seem to have that problem