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HP SimpleSave Desktop USB External Hard Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

2010-09-13
today we're going to be having a look at the HP simple save external hard drive it offers instant hands-free backup hands-free ok it offers extra storage it functions on USB 2.0 and this one in particular happens to be a one terabyte drive just plug it in that's the whole instructions backup will automatically start in 25 seconds your computer is now backed up yes it's that easy wow that's cool alright so system requirements are USB port XP Vista or Windows 7 and what's inside is where all we'll see that in a moment and then here it says stores up to 120 hours of HD video 25,000 mp3s or 2002 or 2525 250,000 mp3s or 200,000 JPEGs and let's get this thing opened up this is a bit of a cheetah unboxing it is oh no it is sealed huh I thought this one wasn't sealed oh there you go it's just the boxes kind of beat up but it is sealed there we go now we know you learn something every day so let's have a look at what we've got in terms of accessories first and then we will have a look at the Cintas 8 unit itself so the first thing we find is a simple same desktop alright this is a bit of a user's guide it's quite simple step 1 plug in step 2 pop it wow they really are stressing the whole simplicity thing so you've got your standard AC to DC adapter as well as a USB cable and they've even got like two different ends on it you know USB eight a mini B just in case you were having trouble figuring out what goes where it should be quite apparent which end goes into what if you want to hook up the simple safe even for like your grandma or you know whoever else you're trying set help backup their stuff just give them one of these and take care of itself by the look of things all right it's got a nice glossy black finish on it which is just gorgeous and a total fingerprint magnet you can see how incredibly glossy that is like you can actually see me completely looking through my camera with my chest tripod meal today all right at the front we find more glossy black an HP logo and a little simple safe and then on the other side we find more glossy black now this is impressive look at that Hey HP engineers have done it again they have invented a glossy black finish that is okay well we've got a little bit of fingerprint nice going on there but that's pretty darn good for like something this shiny look at that very impressive you know what that might be more impressive than their software and the storage and the packaging and everything else combined a glossy black product that does not look horrible as soon as you touch it terrific on the back it's simple USB port power port that's it that's the whole thing there's no buttons this is like the antia the anti PC product it's so simple a Mac user could use it there's no buttons this just it just works cool well thank you for checking out my unboxing of the HP simple safe it offers automatic hands-free backup I see what they mean by hands-free like look at this you don't even have to touch it there's no button so we've gone from one touch to hands-free you just kind of wave at it and the software works it's magic
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